In Ireland, a hearing on a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist

03/16/10: The New York Times reports that a late-night court hearing Monday gave new glimpses into the case that American and Irish prosecutors are pursuing against a group of Muslims on both sides of the Atlantic suspected of plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad atop the body of a dog. Five of the seven people arrested in Ireland a week ago have been released, the last of them shortly before Monday’s hearing. But two others, an Algerian man and a Libyan man, were formally charged.