There are many interesting updates on the Cartoon story in the last 48 hours.
I have been working tirelessly with the Wikpedia Crowd of historians and journalists to get the story down accurately.  Here is the main page to the Wikpedia Article which has the sources for all the following information.

Here is the story as it stands:

One of the first newspapers to publish the cartoons outside of Denmark was a major Egyptian daily. Six of the cartoons were reprinted in the Egyptian newspaper El Fagr in October 17th, 2005, but there were no riots, no deaths nor any calls to boycott Egyptian Products.

Then a group of 3 radical, Fundamentalist Danish clerics went on a tour of the Middle East in lat2 2005 with a 43 page dossier that contained a number of very offensive fake cartoons, including one manufactured from a photo of a contestant in a French pig-calling contest. It is increasingly seen as likely that these false cartoons which are incredibly vulgar were the source of much of the initial outrage. Investigations are now underway to see if the Imams or their followers manufactured the additional, vulgar cartoons.

With the support of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the unrest was fueled by Fundamentalist Clerics throughout the Middle East and Government authorities particularly in Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia using  the original but particularly the fake cartoons.

To date 7 newspapers in Islamic Majority Countries have published the cartoons: 1 Egypt, 2 Jordan. 2 Yemen, 1 Indonesia, 1 Malaysia.  The 2 Syrian Jordanian editors have been released from jail but are due to stand trial. One Yemeni editor is in jail.  One Yemeni Newspaper, Yemen Observer and the Malaysia paper, Sarawak Tribune have been closed down altogether.

Now 77 Newspapers in 30 other countries have published the cartoons including Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, France, Germany, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands. New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romani, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA and Venezuela.  A complete list can be foundhere.  3-4 new newspapers.magazines seem to carry them each day.

In the USA the following papers have published one or more cartoons,

Vally Mirror, Sacremento
New York Sun           
Riverside Press Enterprise, California       
Austin American-Statesman   
Philadelphia Inquirer   
Denver Rocky Mountain News   
Victorville Daily Press, California       
The Stranger, Seattle       
Daily Illini, Champaign Urbana

A major conflict broke out on the Campus of the University of Prince Edward Island (a solid blue, liberal Canadian Province) with the Student Newspaper being the first paper in Canada to publish the cartoons.  The University Dean had the Security Guards raid the newspaper office, but the  Managing Student Editor and staff managed to escape with many papers, although the rest were confiscated.  The Dean ordered the editors and staff to surrender the papers, but they have refused and have been distributing them widely.

Also tonight Flemming Rose, the Editor who kicked all this off has been put on indefinate leave.

So there you go.  What a week it has been.

PS:  Dudley Council in England after immense pressure is reviewing its new regulation to remove pictures of Piglet from all office space.  See my last Kos diary for more details.