Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* for some reason, the CNN wire is only picking up today that the there are plans to republish the original Danish Muhammed cartoons in Flemming Rose's forth coming book.

* the Chicago court case facing Tahawwur Hussain Rana will begin on October 11, with the prosecution presenting its evidence. Rana was arrested in conjunction with David Coleman Headley for a variety of terrorist activities and plans for same. Headley entereed a guilty plea, and is now talking to US and Indian intelligence where it's his role in scouting for the Mumbai terror attacks, not his plans to blow up the Jyllands-Posten newspaper office, that has garnered the most interest.

* a top Saudi advisory body has decided not to endorse a pact between Saudi Arabia and Denmark, in part because of the 2005 cartoons.

* charges have been dropped against Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot for posting anti-Islam cartoon on his web site. He was arrested back in 2005 for the offense.
 
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