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Charges framed against Headley in Chicago federal court | Additional charges against Pakistan-origin terror
suspect, David Coleman Headley were tabled in federal court in Chicago for planning terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper and conducting massive recce if the
places targeted during the November 2008, Mumbai terror attacks. Headley, who
was arrested in October, through his lawyers, has authorized the Justice Department
here to disclose that he is cooperating in the ongoing investigation of both the
Danish and Mumbai terror plots. Headley, 49, has been charged in a 12-count criminal
information with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India , to
murder and maim persons in India and Denmark , to provide material support to
foreign terrorist plots, and to provide material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, and
six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India . I may
be noted that over 170 people were killed, including six US citizens, in the ghastly
terror attacks in Mumbai on November 26,2008 . Another a criminal complaint was
also unsealed in federal court here charging Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed (Abdur Rehman),
a retired major in the Pakistani military, with conspiracy in planning attack
against the Danish newspaper and its employees. Commenting on the charges levelled
against the two Pakistani-origin men, David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for
National Security said that the case highlights that terrorism is now a global
threat and that there is a need of constant vigil to ward off the challenges.
“This case serves as a reminder that the terrorist threat is global in nature
and requires constant vigilance at home and abroad. We continue to share leads
developed in this investigation with our foreign and domestic law enforcement
partners as we work together on this important matter,” said Kris. According to
the latest charges, Headley changed his name from Daood Gilani in February 2006,
in Philadelphia , in order to present himself in India as an American who was
neither Muslim nor Pakistani. He later visited Mumbai five times, in September
2006, February and September 2007, and April and July 2008, and each time took
pictures and made videos of various targets, including those attacked on 26 November,
2008. After each trip that Headley took to India between September 2006 and July
2008, he allegedly returned to Pakistan , met with other co-conspirators and provided
them with photographs, videos and oral descriptions of various locations. At various
times, Headley allegedly conducted surveillance of other locations in Mumbai and
elsewhere in India of strategically important installations, including the National
Defence College in New Delhi. |
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