Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* NPR profiles David Coleman Headley in advance of the documentary A Perfect Terrorist, debuting tonight. Headley was brought to trial on charges related to planned terrorist acts against the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and eventually turned evidence. It turned out that he had a deeper and much more insidious involvement in planning the attacks on Mumbai. His testimony to officials in the U.S. and in India has had geopolitical implications.

* this article about a recent anti-Israel cartoon that suggests that that country's government would wish to bomb a UN office because of their recognition of a Palestinian state cites the Danish Cartoons Controversy as sort of a baseline of criticized behavior over such an event. It's kind of a "I can't believe you're reacting like they reacted" thing, which isn't exactly clear of unpleasant connotations.

* here's something I didn't know: the laws being used to prosecute three men in Norway for plotting against the Jylland-Posten newspaper and the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard have to include an international conspiracy in order to be effective. It really seems like the prosecution strategy might be really strained in this trial -- that they're going for a target with a great amount of difficulty rather than a more achievable one. Very risky.
 
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