Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* it is expected that accused Mickey Mouse plot co-conspirator Tahawwur Hussain Rana will be charged with complicity in other plots including information about the 2008 assault on Mumbai by multiple gunmen. It sounds like a deadline is coming into play more than evidence is really driving the prosecution towards certain indictments, but that's potentially a vastly unfair appraisal on my part and it does seem to me that the attempt to portray Rana as more of an innocent dupe may have been misguided. We'll see what happens.

* Matthias Wivel writes a nice summary piece on the Metropolitan Museum of Art potentially eliminating from its collection representations of Muhammad and why this is a bad thing.

* it could cost the Danish government millions in wages alone to extend around-the-clock protection to recently-assaulted cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

* this isn't directly related at all, but my friends outside of funnybooks are all trying to talk to me about this article on the risks of terrorism by the Wolverine of numbers crunching, Nate Silver.

* I have no idea if the wire services just re-spit this one up or if there was a Danish newspaper that republished the Danish cartoons and is now being censured by the Pakistani government. Iran's foreign ministry going after a Norwegian newspaper, that one's new.
 
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