Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* seems like a lot of David Coleman Headley stuff recently. Headley, you may remember, is the US citizen that did advance scouting for the Mumbai attacks and noodled around vaguely with plans to blow up the Jyllands-Posten newspaper offices -- the offices that facilitate the publishing of the original Danish Muhammed cartoons back in 2005. He has since been turning evidence on his activities, which has been of huge interest to Indian officials seeking to find out the extent of the plot that led to the shootings in Mumbai. While officials seem to be very much into every detail revealed by Headley, I've been a bit suspicious -- apparently I believe myself to be George Smiley now -- that someone who worked so hard to destabilize a region isn't still doing so.

* the most recent story is found in the Guardian, where two British men have been identified as Headley contacts. Here's another article on the British connection, with the bonus of one terrorist plotter being described matter-of-factly as "one-eyed," which we all know means "extra evil."

* bunch of different news stories about Headley's wives taking information to the FBI up to three years before the event, which is bothersome only in that I think the original time-line provided by Headley when he pleaded guilty did not go back three years. Here's one. Here's another. Another article suggests the revelation isn't meant to slam the FBI but to suggest that Headley was a double-agent working for the US, which is something that's come up from time to time.

* India is renewing its claim that Headley's testimony indicts Pakistani secret service as being deeply intertwined with the Mumbai shootings.

* one of the three men arrested in Norway in part for a planned attack on the Jyllands-Posten office was released on October 15 after it was determined he wasn't a flight risk.

* I have a feeling we'll be seeing editorials like this one for years to come.

* Matt Welch thinks newspapers are just flat fearful of publishing anything Muhammed-related. I agree with him, for the most part.

* finally, either a Denmark official apologized for all of this or they didn't.
 
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