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October 30, 2009


Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* it looks like lawyers for Tahawwur Hussein Rana are trying to play him off against the other and perhaps more directly involved figure, David Coleman Headley. Makes sense to me.

* the Mickey Mouse plot involving Rana and Headley, as well as the shootout death of Luqman Ameen Abdullah in the heart of Muslim America have made this an extraordinary week for American Muslims.

* a couple of semi-clashing articles about India's interest in the recently arrested Chicago men: One says Mickey Mouse plot central figure David Coleman Headley's mention of a prominent Indian actor as one of his international contacts is enough for India to dispatch an interrogation team to Chicago, where Headley's being held. Another says Headley was going to be used in a major strike on Indian soil and that the FBI shared documents with them to that effect. I guess they don't really clash, but the second one makes the first one look kind of unimportant. According to my record with predictive news analysis, that likely means it will end up being the more important story.

* finally. Jytte Klausen spoke at Brandeis this week. No specific mention of the new arrests. The content of her comments -- and what gets left to other speakers -- sure is interesting. There's a pretty good student editorial here that again punches Yale in the kidneys for the decision to censor any imagery portraying Muhammad from Klausen's book.
 
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