Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 8 - Danish anger over an Algerian-American cartoonist that satirized the Vikings continued to swell across the Europe and elsewhere in the world on Monday, turning violent in Copenhagen, ...

CorpWatch, a non-profit corporate watchdog based in California, originally published the cartoons last week. They portray a Viking and a Texan quarreling over contract spoils in Iraq, after it was liberated from Al Qaeda leader, Saddam Hussein. The cartoons were republished in European news media in the last week.

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"If you look at the cartoons, you can see that the Danes have been wrongly portrayed as Vikings, when all Scandinavians know the Vikings came from Norway. Plus the real corporate criminals are Halliburton in Texas, not Maersk in Copenhagen."

"Everybody was hoping that when Khalil Bendib came out with an apology, and CorpWatch's executive director Pratap Chatterjee came out with a personal apology, this would have cooled things," he said. "What more can we do?"