“A nasty attempt to coerce Danish newspapers into apologizing for the cartoons of Mohammed”

Christopher Hitchens writes at Slate: “I have just finished reading one of the most astoundingly stupid and nasty documents ever to have landed on my desk. It consists of a letter from a law firm in Saudi Arabia, run by a man named Ahmed Zaki Yamani, to a group of newspapers in Scandinavia. I quote directly from its main paragraphs . . . “