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...attack in India, the official complaint says, Headley shifted his allegiance to another jihadi group willing to support him. "He was incorporated into LeT but not indoctrinated into the cause," John says. "David Headley had a mind of his own." In the end, it was that single-mindedness - his vehement Internet postings about the cartoons and his frequent trips to Denmark without any apparent business interests there - that tipped off investigators to begin watching him. He was arrested in October shortly before another planned trip to Denmark. Headley is now reportedly cooperating with the investigations of the Danish plot...
...there legal ramifications for cases such as Houben's? The distinction between PVS and minimal consciousness has caused legal problems for years now. High-profile cases - most notably that of Floridian Terri Schiavo, whose husband ended her life in 2005 over the vehement protestations of Republican politicians - demonstrate how emotional and legally contentious care for brain-injury patients can be. Such legal fights are likely to become more common as classifications of brain-injury severity are revised. But some medical experts say there are a more immediate concerns than end-of-life questions: "The figures [of misdiagnoses] are frightening...
Though they said no major changes are really possible until next year, the two should perhaps keep an eye on some of their more vehement opposition...
...observed hundreds of parked buses that had brought in many of the attendants, including schoolchildren, from outside of Tehran. Young Iranians, separated into groups of boys and girls carrying Iranian flags, marched between the buses and chanted slogans against American power. Yet many of them seemed less interested in vehement denunciation of the U.S. than in taking a rare opportunity to glance furtively at the opposite sex. Nor was the annual political ritual's turnout any more "epic" than attendance at most state functions. (See pictures of the protests on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover...
...revised intelligence estimates of Iran's missile capability - since Moscow had never taken seriously the U.S. explanation that the shield was designed to protect against an Iranian threat. (An interceptor system targeting Iranian missiles would be more appropriately stationed in Jordan than in Poland, after all, and Moscow's vehement opposition to the planned deployment on its doorstep was based on fears that it actually was aimed at weakening Russia's own nuclear deterrent, because the system would be able to intercept Russia's missiles in the so-called boost stage.) Meanwhile, Obama's decision will surely raise alarms...