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FBI files Criminal Information Report against Headley and not an indictment | While reports about David Coleman Headley, a US national of Pakistani origin who was arrested in Chicago in October on terror charges, being indicted by a Federal court in Chicago are being splashed all over the media, former Additional Secretary B. Raman, in a report, has cited at least eleven instances that suggest that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Information Report against Headley is not an indictment. 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 (LeT), and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S.
citizens in India. Raman's report highlights that the FBI has actually filed a
Criminal Information Report and not yet an indictment because the charges relating
to India are largely based on voluntary admissions made by Headley during his
interrogation after his arrest on October 3,2009. The FBI had originally filed
a criminal affidavit giving details of evidence collected on the basis of technical
intelligence, which justified Headley's arrest and interrogation. Subsequently,
they submitted to the court a sealed cover information obtained during his initial
interrogation to justify his continued custody. Moreover, the FBI has described
the investigation against Headley as still active. A formal indictment would follow
after the investigations into his disclosures in India and Pakistan. The FBI has
also filed a separate Criminal Information Report on two counts in the same court
on December 7,2009, against a retired Pakistan Army official Major Abdur Rehman
Hashim Syed. In the affidavit filed earlier by the FBI against Headley, there
were references to two handlers of Headley in Pakistan, a person referred to as
Individual 'A' and a Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) office-bearer. The FBI's Criminal Information
Report does not refer to any Indian visit by Headley in November, 2008. There
is also no reference to any role of his in connection with the July 2006 explosions
in Mumbai's local trains. Raman, who is currently Director, Institute For Topical
Studies, Chennai, in his report also says the FBI has not filed any Criminal Information
Report against Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin
living in Chicago, who was running an immigration consultancy service, in connection
with November 2008 attacks. Rana was also arrested along with Headley by the FBI
in October. |
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