Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* a court upheld the 10-year sentence facing the Somali-born Muhideen Geelle for breaking into Kurt Westergaard's home in a horrible, well-publicized incident and much-analyzed, follow-up trial.

* there were three new arrests and subsequent charges in Denmark in terms of men plotting terrorist activities, the kind of thing authorities were afraid might happen during the ongoing trial of men accused of plotting against the newspapers Jyllands-Posten.

* there were incidents of violence and many arrests at a political protest that involved people brandishing the Danish cartoons.

* original Danish Cartoons cartoonist Kurt Westergaard distanced himself from a contest featuring Muhammed caricatures.
 
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