Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* in growing evidence that the general plans of arrested Chicago men David Coleman Headley and Tahawwura Rana included targets other than targets related to the Danish Muhammad cartoons (the Jyllands-Posten office, cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, editor Flemming Rose), there are reports that other targets for Headley were discussed including a college in India. I have no idea how much weight to give such claims -- there some jostling in terms of bail going on, and if you looked at my e-mails for the last six month you could conceivably say I thought about visiting terrorism a couple of college football referees in September. I do know the authorities are taking it seriously.

* this is the first report that I've seen state what each man could conceivably be facing: Headly is looking at life in prison; Rana a potential sentence of 15 years.

* a really lousy idea made possible in part because of political fallout from the Danish Cartoons Controversy, the UN Defamation of Religions resolution is criticized here.
 
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