Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Lars Doukayev was sentenced to 12 years in jail earlier today in Copenhagen. The Chechen-born Belgium man was being tried on chages of preparing a letter bomb intended for the Copenhagen office of Jyllands-Posten in response to their having published the Danish Cartoons in Fall 2005.

Doukayev was arrested after the bomb went off in the bathroom of his hotel room September 10.

The formal charges were "attempted terrorism" and "illegal weapons possession." The defense has two weeks to appeal; Doukayev has maintained his innocence throughout.

* the Tahawwur Rana trial resumes tomorrow with the start of what will likely be the centerpiece of the trial against the Chicago businessman accused of supporting terrorism, including a planned attack on Danish Cartoons publication Jyllands-Posten: the defense cross-examination of prosecution star witness David Coleman Headley. Rana is basically accused of supporting terrorism by supporting Headley in trips overseas where he was up to no good. Headley copped a plea to avoid extradition and the possibility of the death penalty. What Rana's lawyers must do is convince the jury that Headley acted of his own accord, that Rana thought Headley was only advancing mutual business interests on the trips he facilitated.

As articles like this one have noted, the trial is of massive interest to Indian news source because of Headley's confessed role doing advance scouting work for the Mumbai Massacre, and his claims that Pakistani intelligence services provided assistance to the terrorists perpetrating that dark crime.


 
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