Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* as expected, Mickey Mouse plot co-conspirator Tahawwur Hussain Rana was yesterday also indicted on charges related to supporting the terrorist group Lashka-e-Tayyiba in attacks on Mumbai in 2008. He had previously been indicted for a plot to attack targets related to the Danish Cartoons controversy: the Jyllands-Posten publication offices, editor Flemming Rose and cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. This is additionally interesting in that Rana's lawyer and his family have attempted to portray Rana as largely duped into participating in various activities by more active co-conspirator David Coleman Headley.

* in another interesting development, Ilyas Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman were also indicted Thursday on charges related to doing harm to the Danish Cartoons publisher and some of its key agents and employees. Both are believed to be residing in Pakistan and have not yet been arrested.

* here's an analysis of the new charge-sheet as it relates to the original Mickey Mouse plot conspirators.

* the implement of destruction to be visited on the newspaper was going to be what sounds like an Oklahoma City-style truck bomb. That same article indicates that the paper has since the initial arrests and uncovering of this plot hired a director of security to better protect its employees and other holdings.

* it looks like Kurt Westergaard's attacker may have a name and the bare bones of a personal profile. I'm a little worried about this article because in the first graph it had Westergaard in the panic room with his granddaughter, which was the initial report but has since been reversed.
 
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