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June 17, 2010


Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* while one would imagine that attacks on the Danish World Cup team and that team's fans due to the perceived insults of the Danish Cartoons would be on everyone's minds already, comments made by the recently-arrested Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani have definitely heightened concerns. No significant changes have been made to the team's itinerary, however. Doesn't look like that team will be around long, either.

* here's something I hadn't seen yet, or maybe only a couple of times: one of the Danish Cartoons as a component of art, not just art itself.

* here's a segment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book Nomad that discusses Kurt Westergaard.

* that promised period of interrogation for Indian officials interested in David Coleman Headley's involvement in the Mumbai attacks has taken place, and lasted for seven days. Headley pleaded guilty to various conspiracy-type crimes, including a plot to blow up the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that originally published the Danish Cartoons. Here's more on what he reportedly told officials.
 
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