Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Judge Nan Nolan has denied the bail application of Mickey Mouse Plot co-defendant Tahawwur Rana. Whether or not Rana would receive bail turned into a big moment in the early portions of legal proceedings against Rana and David Coleman Headley on charges relating to planned terrorist attacks against perpetrators of the Danish Muhammad Cartoons and assistance in the 2008 Mumbai shootings. Rana has been portrayed as the more innocent of the two, even duped into participation by Headley. Prosecutors played tapes that indicated Rana knew more about the Mumbai shootings than was being portrayed. The judge cited Rana's ability to flee the jurisdiction as a factor in denying bail.

* here's more on the Mumbai-related charges being leveled against David Coleman Headley.

* the CIA has denied ever using Headley as an operative in the past. There were rumors swirling to that effect, particularly in India.
 
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