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April 15, 2011


Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Jordan is going to go ahead and try Danish Cartoons cartoonist Kurt Westergaard for blasphemy based on a 2008 lawsuit filed in that nation's court system; Westergaard is going to take a pass on showing up.

* speaking of people being put on trial in different countries, Indian may charge David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana with crimes related to the 26/11 Mumbai shootings, part of a number of activities in which the pair engaged, activities that included planning an attack on the Danish Cartoons producing Jyllands-Posten paper.

* that reveal in court papers that Rana may be 'fessing up to knowing about Pakistani government involved in those Mumbai shootings? Rana now says that he didn't know about the government involvement in the shooting people in Mumbai part.

* Denmark has started to process that Tunisian-born guy they received from Sweden earlier this month, on charges that he was involved in a late December plot to shoot up Jyllands-Posten.
 
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