Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* jury selection has begun in Chicago federal court in the case against Tahawwur Rana, the businessman linked to David Coleman Headley in a wide-ranging plot focused on enabling Headley to assist terrorist faction in scouting and executing activities including a shooting up of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. The fact that Headley confessed and has been supplying U.S. and Indian authorities with information about his role in doing advance work for the Mumbai Massacre has kicked this whole thing into overheated backroom political status. The Rana team and extended circle of family and friends has pretty consistently maintained Rana's general lack of knowledge about Headley's admitted-to activities and has denied accusations directly related to his own involvement, although there have been a few rumblings that Rana could make a deal in the same way Headley did. Well worth watching, and in terms of the cartoon it may be worth noting if the Danish Cartoons Controversy is presented as a kind of spur to get someone involved that would not have been involved otherwise.

* an innocent plea was entered by the Chechen man accused of readying a bomb for the Jyllands-Posten office, a device that exploded and injured the subject. There haven't been enough trials of folks accused of directly doing things related to the Danish Cartoons Controversy for this one to be ignored, although I think it's a pretty straight-up criminal case with little in the way of interesting cultural grind in the background.
 
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