Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* here's a bit more on the Indian interest in David Coleman Headley, and possible connections between the two Mickey Mouse Plot principals and established terrorist groups.

* I'm not certain why I can only find this in a Myanmar wire service story -- it could be my not-great link finding skills -- but that story says Al Qaeda-related tapes were found in the residence of that aforementioned secondary Mickey Mouse Plot figure, Tahawwur Hussain Rana. I'm not sure if that's something where it's quite common for such a tape to show up in someone who has those political interests, or if this glue traps the efforts to make Rana out to be the innocent half of that team. Or something between those two strident poles -- but there it is!

* so I guess there's a new book that's a bunch of Muhammad images buttressed by an essay in support of unfettered free speech. Sounds like a stunt than a serious book, depending on the quality and necessity of that essay and the intentions of its publisher. I'm not in favor of stunt-publishing pictures of Muhammad. I think it's obnoxious, and I think the people that do so are starting cultural conversations they have no inclination or skill to continue. But one certainly has the right to do so.
 
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