Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

As expected, admitted terrorist support freelancer David Coleman Headley has testified at the trial of his former working partner Tahawwur Rana. Headley pleaded out in 2010; Rana has remained on course for a trial. Also as expected, Headley indicted Pakistani military intelligence for their support of groups with whom he and Rana were working on plans like shooting up the Danish Cartoons publication Jyllands-Posten, and, much-much-much more importantly, the Mumbai Massacre. This replications testimony he's apparently already provided to intelligence officials from the U.S. and India since making his plea. With one or two brief potential exceptions, Rana has maintained his general innocence in terms of not exactly comprehending what Headley and Headley's contacts were up to in any of the business they conducted.

The heat of that testimony is only tangentially related to the Danish Cartoons Controversy, as plans to kill people at that institution are definitely the ugly stepsister to the stunning ballroom queen that is the charges being made regarding the shootings in Mumbai. (If Rana insists as once hinted that his interest was in revenge for the cartoons rather than getting at the Indian people, the cartoons' relevance would be bumped up a few notches. We'll see.) However, since it's the only series of events tangentially related to that bunch of cartoons that could conceivably one day contribute to the appearance of a giant mushroom cloud over a populated area, I find it worth mentioning here.
 
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