Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* in case you missed yesterday's explosive revelations of arrests in the case of two Chicago men who wanted to bring terror upon those they felt responsible for the Danish Cartoons Controversy in 2005, the Chicago Tribune has a decent general article to catch you up.

* for some reason, I totally spaced on the fact that the other target of the general assassination plot was Flemming Rose.

* in a hearing on Wednesday, the Canadian citizenship and travel agency connections of one of the two men, Tahawwur Rana, was the subject of debate on whether to detain him or to release him on bond. The judge wants more information before making her decision.

* here's more on Kurt Westergaard's reaction to news he had been targeted once again for people intending him harm.

* one option: blame Canada.

* finally, Matthias Wivel looks at the Mickey Mouse plot as a jumping-off point for a wider discussion of re-publishing the Danish Cartoons. I've always rejected the notion of publishing them for solidarity, yet I still strongly believe that publishing them back when people were dying and there was a lot of mystery as to what those cartoons looked like should have been part of many more journalistic missions than it was.
 
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