Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

Ali Charaf Damache was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in federal prison in a Philadelphia. He was the Algerian ringleader of a small group that plotted to assassinate post-Danish Cartoons figure Lars Vilks, an artist who made some cartoons in the period of heightened sensitivity following the original newspaper cartoons -- I would suppose at this point, Vilks and the original participating artists have begun to blur together as history does its usual push towards a broader perspective. The chapter of the saga in question took place in 2011, some five full years after the original controversy.

Damache's sentence was I believe the maximum allowed.
 
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