Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* believe me, I'd love to stop writing these.

* here's the weekend's best wrap-up story on recent events, in the form of a think piece on how the arrest of two Chicago men for their plans to commit terrorist acts abroad flips the script on a common fear of people coming from outside the US to peform terrorist acts here. A funnier man than I am could work up a really good import/export joke here.

* there was a bomb scare at Kurt Westergaard's house over the weekend.

* occasional wire-type articles have been popping up since last week's news of their arrests about the activities of suspected anti-Danish Cartoons plotters David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, which indicates a number of trips by Headley to various regions of interest.

* this article goes a bit further to suggest that the arrest of Headley suggests a new campaign by certain elements of Al Qaeda in Pakistan.

* Rana owns a meat processing plant, but apparently it's not a part of any inquiry.

* I don't really understand the logic or "logic" involved here, but at least one gentleman thinks that the DCC-related arrests have something to say about the push to move Gitmo detainees to Michigan.

* this is the closest I've seen in terms of a comment from Flemming Rose, the Jylland-Posten editor who originally commissioned the Danish Muhammad cartoons in 2005 and a supposed target of Headley and Rana. I still distrust the storyline that presents the original actions solely as an action regarding freedom of expression, but that's not only a post for another time it has been a post at another time.
 
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