Bruce Schneier writes of a mystery. Linda Rayburn and her son Michael Berry were brutally murdered by her husband, David Rayburn, on February 3rd, 2004. Rayburn then hanged himself in the basement of their home, leaving behind a handwritten cryptogram.

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A couple of good stories this week on the Jyllands-Posten controversy that shed some light on how this "clash of civilizations" is being fed by people who will benefit from it:

- A great article from Jytte Klausen at Salon on the Danish politics and media that lead to the publication of the cartoons.

- A fascinating article about Danish Muslim Ahmed Akkari. After failing to get much of a domestic reaction to the Jyllands-Posten cartoons, he printed them in a booklet, along with other even more blasphemous and insulting images, and handed them out to Muslim leaders in the Middle East. He did not get the reaction he expected.

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