Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* it's not exactly the most glamorous way to end the week, but this story added a couple of foreboding elements in the last 24 hours.

* police in Bangladesh arrested three men earlier today that were targeting US-related sites in that country, ostensibly due to information recovered from suspects arrested in Chicago last month for plotting to harm Danish Cartoons cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose and the Jyllands-Posten office.

* two people have also been arrested in Pakistan related to both the arrested Chicago men, tying the plot into Lashkar-e-Taiba and making the whole thing slightly more scary. (A video commercial pops up when you hit that link and it's really annoying.)

* here's an article that ties the LeT thing with earlier reports that David Coleman Headley was being asked to consider targets in India either before or simply in addition to the cartoon-related targets.

* my interest in these stories, incidentally, isn't so much the unique information here -- although that's fascinating enough -- but that you could a) find the Danish Cartoon stuff being used as a recruitment tool more directly than ever, and b) could find the targets involved here included in wider lists of targets from now on.
 
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