Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* I just sort of wanted to note that cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is currently being tried in Jordan for the cartoon he contributed to 2005's Danish Cartoons page in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. To my eye, that particular story operates at farcical levels so stratospheric that the fact this is a local media group suing Westergaard makes it only slightly goofier rather than significantly more absurd. Mr. Westergaard, for his part, has wisely not gone to Jordan to face the charges, opining that Jordanian prisons would be a tough go. Nineteen other journalists were charged and, one assumes, are also being tried at this time.

* here's a heavy-text slideshow about David Coleman Headley's involvement in a plot to do significant damage to the offices and people of Jyllands-Posten, and the much more politically significant of his doing spy work in advance of the Mumbai shootings. It's not sourced, so it's hard to track the provenance of this information, and since Tahawwur Rana is still being tried for some of these thing I imagine there's some dispute as to events reported here. It looks like fascinating reading, though, and I look forward to digging into it later today.
 
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