Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

The four men -- three Swedish national of Arab origin and a Tunisian -- convicted yesterday of plotting a Mumbai-style attack on Copenhagen, focusing on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, were each sentenced to 12 years in jail for plotting that terrorist act. One of the men had previously pled to a weapons-related charge; other weapons-related charges were dropped on a technicality. The men were arrested in late 2010 after a joint exercise featuring Danish and Swedish police. The trial has put the spotlight on the lingering hangover caused by the cartoons and on anti-terrorism laws and law enforcement efforts that have sprung up since that initial controversy, now approach seven years in the rear view window.
 
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