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It's not the Rahul you think it is: Chidambaram | Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday dismissed the view that the mysterious 'Rahul' figuring as a target of David Headley arrested by the FBI in the U.S for allegedly plotting terror-attacks overseas, including India, being Congress Party's General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. "It could be a pseudo name, it could be a code name but please be
assured that it is not the Rahul you think it is," said P. Chidambaram during
a media interaction in the national capital. On the issue of arrest of David Headley
by the FBI in the U.S., Chidambaram said: "We know that David Headley visited
Pakistan several occasions. Most of the time he seems to have travelled in his
own name and under regular passport bearing his own name, now who his friends
were, who he is acquainted with, these are matters that have to be investigated.
Our investigators are joining the investigation in United States; our investigators
will reach US by Sunday. They will join the investigation on Monday." The FBI
arrested David Coleman Headley, a Chicago resident earlier this month for plotting
terror-attacks overseas, including India. He was arrested along with a Canadian
citizen of Pakistani origin by the FBI's joint terrorism task force. It is reported
that Headley came in close contact with several unidentified leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba
(LeT) a Pakistani-based terrorist organisation with links to Al Qaeda. Headley,
a U.S. citizen who changed his name from Dawood Gilani in 2006 and resides primarily
in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 3, 2009, by the Chicago FBI's Joint Terrorism
Task Force (JTTF) at O'Hare International Airport before boarding a flight to
Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan. He was charged with one count
of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the
United States and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to that
overseas terrorism conspiracy. |
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