Posted on 10/21/2009 12:39:00 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "Search at Grundy County plant called part of ongoing probe"
SNIPPET: "But a source said the owner of the plant, which processes lamb and goat, was taken into custody at his home in Chicago.
Documents and records were taken from the plant and from a Chicago travel agency on West Devon Avenue, also owned by the same person, the source said."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408305/posts
India’s suspicion about US caginess over Headley deepens
The Times of India ^ | 16 December 2009
Posted on December 15, 2009 3:50:38 PM PST by cold start
NEW DELHI: India’s suspicion that US was not coming clean on David Coleman Headley, the US-based Lashkar jehadi who facilitated 26/11 by providing Ajmal Kasab and others with precise information about their targets, has deepened.
The growing disquiet in the government here which believes that Headley was a US agent who went rogue was expressed by a senior government official. “It is very strange that the US did not inform us of Headley’s visit to India in March this year when he, by their own account, had been under their surveillance since at least September 2008,” the official said, pointing out that India would have arrested the terrorist had it known about his identity.
“We suspect that the reluctance is because Headley was a double agent and the Americans may not like him to be exposed to Indian agencies,” the official said.
He also echoed the suspicion that Headley may be negotiating a deal with the US for a lighter sentence in exchange for more information about jehadis, including his co-accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
The growing belief here that Headley was an agent who went rogue, as first reported by TOI on November 27, stems from his history as an agent of the US’s Drug Enforcement Agency. As already established, the US-based Lashkar jehadi was arrested for drug trafficking in 1997. He got away with a light sentence after he squealed on drug traffickers.
The collaboration, investigation by US media suggests, deepened in the following years and Headley was allowed to go to Pakistan soon after 9/11 terror attacks on the US. In his new role, he is suspected to have worked for the CIA which has huge covert operations going on in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In any case, DEA and CIA agents working in Af-Pak region routinely segue into each other’s roles to fight terrorism fuelled by proceeds of opium smuggling.
Because of his Pakistani origin, Headley successfully infiltrated the jehadi groups, particularly Lashkar-e-Toiba, and kept briefing the Americans on the jehadi outfit’s plans, including the one to attack Mumbai in September last year.
But the loyalties of Headley, who was raised as a Muslim, started tipping towards jehadi outfits and the Americans did not realise this till they were caught unawares by 26/11.
Headley, who has visceral hatred for India, as disclosed by his former wife to Philadelphia Inquirer, had obviously kept the plot from his American handlers.
The Inquirer, in its report, highlighted this fact. Quoting Headley’s ex-wife, the report said, “Infidels. He (Headley) would use words like that when he would see an Indian person in the street, he used to spit, spit in the street to make a point”.
The surveillance on him confirmed the “defection” to the jehadi camp, bringing out his plan to attack the Danish newspaper and Jewish targets as well as links with dreaded terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri who hates India and the US with equal intensity.
But while Headley has been arrested, Americans may be loath to allow Indians direct access to him and not just for the fear of uncomfortable details of their previous collaboration. The jehadi, who was earlier known as Daood Salim Gilani, has been very forthcoming and his testimony may be crucial for the conviction of Rana who has become a bigger target for the US because of suspicion that he may have used his immigration firm to bring in Pakistanis of suspect credentials into the US on forged travel documents.
The FBI affidavit against Rana makes it clear that the two have fallen out with Rana claiming that he was duped by Headley. Rana has been keeping mum while Headley has been cooerating with the interogators, FBI sources have confirmed to US media.
Headley, who moved extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan and can be a reservoir of information for the US counter-terrorism effort, is also suspected to have made it plain to Americans that his cooperation was contingent upon his being kept off limits for Indians.
There is an appreciation of the compulsion of US agencies. The fact that it was FBI which tipped off about Lashkar’s plans and was crucial to the breakthrough in the 26/11 probe is also widely acknowledged.
But there is growing frustration with the delay in accessing information about and from Headley. In fact, the official’s criticism came on a day when FBI’s fresh chargesheet against Headley’s co-accused Rana listed details that the American agency had initially not shared with their Indian counterparts. The document filed by the FBI in a Chicago court seeking Rana’s continued detention mentioned Gujarat’s Somnath temple and Bollywood stars among targets identified by Lashkar.
FBI’s chargesheet against Headley was silent about these targets. “Why are they sharing things in bits and pieces on a matter that is so crucial for us”, said another official familiar with the details of the cooperation with the American investigating agency.
The matter has even acquired political dimension with CPM, known for its anti-US stand, pouncing upon it. The matter was raised by Brinda Karat in Rajya Sabha.
Headley’s dealings with US agencies dates to 1988, almost 10 years before his arrest in New York, when he caught in Frankfurt for smuggling drugs. He was handed over to DEA. Even then, he got off with a lighter sentence by testifying against his partners. Referring to those arrests, Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday reported, “It quickly became clear to federal law enforcement officials in New York that Headley knew a great deal about heroin trade between US and Pakstan and was wiling to cooperate. Headley went to work for DEA, making heroin cases against at least three Pakistani men”.
Indian investigators, meanwhile, found that Headley during his multiple visits to India had spent a lot of money running into lakhs of rupees through credit cards issued by American banks and in fake Indian currency, believed to have been brought from Pakistan.
“It is found during the probe that in most of the instances where Headley had paid cash amount, a few currency notes in the entire payment would be fake which he had procured during his trips to Pakistan”, said an official.
Indian investigators are now trying to find out who had paid his credit card bills in the American banks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408636/posts
“Thanks to Chicago Terrorists, India Changes Visa Rules”
NBC ^ | 16 Dec 2009
Posted on December 16, 2009 5:33:55 AM PST by cold start
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3552.html
Paper no. 3552
16-Dec-2009
“Headley: A Quadruple Agent- International Terrorism Monitor—Paper No. 592”
By B. Raman
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Previously...
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3549.html
Paper no. 3549
15-Dec-2009
“Headley’s Case Figures In Senate Committee”
By B. Raman
(December 15, 2009)
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/12/understanding_the_indian_press.php
“Understanding Indian press rumors about Headley”
By DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS
December 17, 2009 8:30 PM
SNIPPET: “I previously analyzed the rumors, centered around the Indian press, that David Headley had penetrated Lashkar-e-Taiba as a CIA asset. These rumors generally hold that Headley then “went rogue” and become committed to LeT’s mission before his involvement in the Mumbai attacks. Although I argued that these rumors should not be regarded as credible, the Indian media is now accepting Headley’s continued work for the US government as proven fact. (He is known to have worked for the DEA in Pakistan in 1999, but there is no concrete proof that he worked for any other US government agency thereafter.)
Further, claims about Headley grow more outlandish by the day.”
“Authorities: “Chicago man” charged with helping plot Mumbai attacks also conducted surveillance of nuclear plant”
(Posted December 20, 2009)
SNIPPET: An update on this story. “Chicagoan Said to Have Helped Terrorists Target Nuclear Plant,” by Richard Esposito and Brian Ross for ABC News, December 20 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
The Chicago man charged with helping plot the terror attacks one year ago in Mumbai also photographed and conducted surveillance of a nuclear weapons fuel plant in Tromboy, India, according to Indian and U.S. law enforcement authorities.
The authorities say David Headley was sent to Tromboy, a northwest suburb of Mumbai, by his handlers in the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, an affiliate of al Qaeda.
The Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Tromboy is capable of producing 66 pounds of plutonium a year for four the country’s nuclear weapons, according to David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security.”
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001695.html
December 23, 2009
“WHY INVESTIGATORS NEED TO FOCUS MORE ON RANA”
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http://ramanstrategicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/need-to-focus-more-on-rana.html
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2009
“NEED TO FOCUS MORE ON RANA
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR-—PAPER NO. 593”
B.RAMAN
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-terror-rana-immigrationjan03,0,6207893.story
“Chicago immigration agency a front for terror plot, federal probers allege
U.S. probe targets operations of First World Immigration”
By Antonio Olivo
Tribune reporter
January 3, 2010
SNIPPET: “Federal prosecutors charge that the Immigration center served as a front in a Chicago-based terror plot to bomb a Danish newspaper that in 2005 outraged Muslims worldwide when it published unflattering caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
First World’s owner, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, also knew in advance of plans for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, which killed 172 people, federal prosecutors allege.
Randall Samborn, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, said last week that federal authorities are working to determine the Immigration status of people who entered the U.S. with the agency’s help. The alleged plot is one of several cases raising new concerns about U.S.-based terror plots.
Rana, who also owns a grocery store in Chicago and a halal meat plant in Kinsman, Ill., is in federal custody. He was arrested in October, along with another Chicagoan, David Coleman Headley, an alleged scout in the Denmark and Mumbai plots.”
SNIPPET: “Friends say First World is popular among Pakistani and Indian immigrants.
“(Rana) is a very kind-hearted person,” said Raja Muhammad Yaqub.
Yaqub, who knows Rana through their mosque...”
Note: Regarding Rana:
http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wls/documents/38-main.pdf
http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wls/documents/38-1.pdf
http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wls/documents/38-2.pdf
http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wls/documents/38-3.pdf
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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=7203704
“Chicago terror suspect is Pakistani army deserter”
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Chuck Goudie
January 6, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS)
“Tahawwur Rana’s 49th birthday spent inside Chicago prison”
PTI
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 20:49 IST
SNIPPET: “Chicago: Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, arrested by FBI on terror charges, spent his 49th birthday today behind the confines of Chicago prison facility as his bail plea was not heard by the court last week.
The hopes of Rana to celebrate his birthday with his family had dashed after he failed to secure release...”
SNIPPET: “Rana, who has been in custody since October 18 last year, has been kept in Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago which is an administrative facility designed to house prisoners of all security levels, appearing before Federal courts.
His family is claiming that charges against him are baseless and he has been framed. His brother Abbas Rana who is a reporter with Hill Times weekly, has mentioned that his brother was innocent.”
NOTE: The following text is a quote:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/January/10-nsd-038.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, January 14, 2010
Tahawwur Rana and David Headley Indicted for Alleged Roles in India and Denmark Terrorism Conspiracies
Ilyas Kashmiri & Retired Pakistan Major Charged in Denmark Plot
A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment adding three defendants, including Tahawwur Rana, to charges filed last month against David Coleman Headley, alleging that they and others participated in conspiracies involving a planned terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper and the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that killed approximately 164 people, including six Americans.
The 12-count superseding indictment contains the identical charges that were filed against Headley on Dec. 7, 2009, while adding Rana as a defendant in three of the counts charging material support of the terrorism plots in Denmark and India, as well as in support of the designated foreign terrorist organization Lashkar e Tayyiba. Also indicted were Ilyas Kashmiri, an allegedly influential terrorist organization leader in Pakistan who is alleged to be in regular contact with leaders of al Qaeda, and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed (Abdur Rehman), a retired major in the Pakistani military, both of whom were charged in two conspiracy counts relating to the Denmark terrorism plot.
Both Rana and Abdur Rehman were charged separately in previous court filings, but today’s indictment charges Kashmiri for the first time, although he was identified by name in the charges filed previously against Rana, Abdur Rehman and Headley.
Rana, 49, a Canadian citizen, Chicago resident and native of Pakistan, has remained in federal custody in Chicago since he was arrested on Oct. 18, 2009, in connection with the planned attack in Denmark. He was indicted today on three counts of providing material support to terrorism or a terrorist organization — one count of providing material support in preparation for and in carrying out the Mumbai attacks; one count of providing material support to the Denmark terrorism plot; and one count of providing material support to Lashkar e Tayyiba (Lashkar.) Translated as the “Army of the Good,” Lashkar operated in Pakistan for the principal purpose of fighting to separate from India portions of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Lashkar was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States in December 2001.
No date has been set yet for Rana to be arraigned in federal court in Chicago. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber.
Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman, also known as “Major Abdur Rehman” and “Pasha,” were each charged with one count of conspiracy to murder and maim persons in Denmark, and one count of providing material support to the Danish terrorism plot. Neither man is in U.S. custody.
Headley, 49, a U.S. citizen and Chicago resident, faces the same 12 counts that were filed against him last month — six counts of conspiracy involving bombing public places in India, murdering and maiming persons in India and Denmark, providing material support to foreign terrorist plots, and providing material support to Lashkar, and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India. Headley has remained in federal custody in Chicago since he was arrested in Chicago on Oct. 3, 2009. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges but previously authorized the Justice Department to disclose that he is cooperating in the ongoing investigation.
In 2002 and 2003, Headley allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar, and conspired with its members and others, including Rana, Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman, in planning and executing the attacks in Denmark and India. He allegedly conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 attacks that killed approximately 164 people and left hundreds more injured.
Mumbai Terror Attacks
According to the charges, unnamed Lashkar Member A, who served as a “handler” for Headley and another person associated with Lashkar, advised Headley in late 2005 that Headley would be traveling to India to perform surveillance of potential targets for Lashkar. Headley changed his given name of Daood Gilani on Feb. 15, 2006, in Philadelphia, enabling him to present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani. In the spring of 2006, Lashkar Member A and a Lashkar associate discussed with Headley the idea that he could open an immigration office in Mumbai as a cover for his surveillance activities.
In approximately June 2006, Headley allegedly traveled to Chicago, advised Rana of his assignment to scout potential targets in India, and obtained approval from Rana, who owned First World Immigration Services in Chicago and elsewhere, to open a First World office in Mumbai as cover for his activities. Rana allegedly directed an individual associated with First World to prepare documents supporting Headley’s cover story of opening a First World office in Mumbai, and advised Headley how to obtain a visa for travel to India. Headley misrepresented his birth name, his father’s true name and the purpose of his travel in his visa application, the indictment alleges.
In July 2006, unnamed Person A in Pakistan gave Headley approximately $25,000 to establish and operate the Mumbai office of First World and to pay for living expenses while Headley carried out his assignment for Lashkar, the charges add.
Headley later made five extended trips to Mumbai — in September 2006, February and September 2007, and April and July 2008 — each time taking photographs and making videotapes of various potential targets, including those attacked in November 2008, and using his association with First World as cover for his travels. Before each trip, Lashkar members and associates allegedly instructed Headley regarding specific locations where he was to conduct surveillance, and Headley traveled to Pakistan after each trip to meet with Lashkar members and associates, report on the results of his surveillance, and provide the surveillance photos and videos.
During his meetings with Lashkar members and associates in Pakistan after the September 2007 surveillance trip to Mumbai, Lashkar Member A showed Headley a styrofoam mockup of the Taj Mahal hotel, and Person A provided Headley with approximately $2,000 worth of Indian currency for expenses, according to the indictment. Before the April 2008 surveillance trip, Lashkar Member A provided Headley with an additional $1,000 worth of Indian currency. In addition, Lashkar Members A and B provided Headley with a global positioning system device and showed him how to use it to record the locations of possible landing sites and potential targets in Mumbai, which Headley then used during his surveillance trips in April and July 2008, the charges state.
Before the July 2008 visit, Person A provided an additional $1,500 worth of Indian currency to Headley to keep the First World office open, but approved closing that office in the future and opening a new business in Delhi, India, to be used as cover for future activities. During Headley’s July 2008 surveillance mission, Person A communicated with Headley by passing messages to him through Rana, the indictment alleges.
Starting Nov. 26, 2008, and continuing through Nov. 28, 2008, 10 attackers trained by Lashkar carried out multiple assaults with firearms, grenades and improvised explosive devices against multiple targets in Mumbai, including the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, the Leopold Café, the Chabad House and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station, each of which Headley allegedly had scouted in advance, killing approximately 164 victims.
The six Americans killed during the three-day siege are identified in the charges as Ben Zion Chroman, Gavriel Holtzberg, Sandeep Jeswani, Alan Scherr, his daughter Naomi Scherr and Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum.
Denmark Terror Plot
Regarding the Denmark terror plot, Headley allegedly conspired between October 2008, and Oct. 3, 2009, with Kashmiri, Abdur Rehman and others to plan and carry out terrorist attacks, including murder and maiming, against the facilities of the Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper, and two of its employees, Editor A and Cartoonist A. In 2005, the newspaper had published 12 cartoons, some of which depicted the Prophet Mohammed, setting off protests throughout the Muslim world. In early 2008, the Jyllands-Posten and other Danish newspapers republished one of the cartoons which had drawn particularly strong criticism.
Today’s indictment alleges that Headley met with Lashkar Member A in Pakistan in October 2008 and discussed the prospect of an attack on the newspaper, including extensive surveillance work that Headley would perform. Lashkar Member A allegedly provided Headley with a thumb drive containing information about Denmark, the city of Copenhagen, and the newspaper. In late December 2008 and early January 2009, after reviewing with Rana how he had performed surveillance of the targets attacked in Mumbai, Headley advised Rana of the planned attack on the Danish newspaper and his intended travel to Denmark to conduct surveillance of its facilities. Headley allegedly obtained Rana’s approval and assistance to identify himself as a representative of First World and gain access to the newspaper’s offices by falsely expressing interest in placing advertising for First World in the newspaper. At the same time, while in Chicago, Headley exchanged emails with Abdur Rehman to continue planning for the attack and to coordinate his travel to Denmark to conduct surveillance. Before departing Chicago, Headley and Rana caused business cards to be made that identified Headley as a representative of the Immigration Law Center, the business name of First World, according to the charges.
Headley allegedly traveled in January 2009, from Chicago to Copenhagen, Denmark, to conduct surveillance of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus and to videotape the surrounding areas. On Jan. 29, 2009, Rana, posing as Headley, allegedly sent an email to the Jyllands-Posten pretending to be interested in placing an advertisement in the newspaper on behalf of First World.
In late January 2009, Headley traveled to Pakistan and met separately to discuss the planning with Abdur Rehman and Lashkar Member A. In February 2009, Abdur Rehman allegedly took Headley to meet with Kashmiri in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. During the meeting, Kashmiri allegedly indicated that he had reviewed the surveillance videos made by Headley and suggested using a truck bomb in the operation. Kashmiri further indicated that he could provide manpower for the operation and that Lashkar’s participation was not necessary, the indictment alleges. Subsequently, in March 2009, Lashkar Member A advised Headley that Lashkar put the newspaper attack on hold because of pressure in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, according to the charges.
In May 2009, Headley and Abdur Rehman met again with Kashmiri in Waziristan and Kashmiri allegedly directed Headley to meet with his European contacts who could provide Headley with money, weapons and manpower for the newspaper attack. In late July and early August 2009, Headley traveled from Chicago to various places in Europe, including Copenhagen, attempting to obtain assistance from Kashmiri’s contacts and, while there, made approximately 13 additional surveillance videos, according to the charges.
In September 2009, Headley and Rana allegedly spoke about reports that Kashmiri had been killed in a drone attack and the implications of his possible death for the plan to attack the newspaper. Later that month, Abdur Rehman, from Pakistan, allegedly called Headley to report that Kashmiri was not killed and was anxious to move forward with attacking the newspaper. In the late summer of 2009, Rana and Headley allegedly agreed that funds that had been provided to Rana could be used to fund Headley’s work in Denmark.
On Oct. 3, 2009, Headley was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, intending ultimately to travel to Pakistan to meet with and deliver the approximately 13 surveillance videos to Abdur Rehman and Kashmiri, the indictment alleges.
The charges identify Kashmiri as an influential leader of Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI), an organization that trained terrorists and executed attacks in the state of Jammu and Kashmir under Indian control and other areas. Kashmiri based his operations from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of western Pakistan, an area which served as a haven for terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda. Kashmiri allegedly was in regular contact with al Qaeda and in particular with an al Qaeda leader, Mustafa Abu al Yazid, also known as “Sheik Said al Masri.”
According to the indictment, in June 2008, al Qaeda, through its media wing known as “As Sahab Media,” took credit for an attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and called for further attacks against Danish interests to avenge the publication of the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohamed first published in the Jyllands-Posten in 2005. In August 2008, al Qaeda released a video through As Sahab Media calling for further attacks in retaliation for the publication of the cartoons, and Mustafa Abu al Yazid, among others, appeared in the video. The indictment alleges that in July 2009, Headley provided the al Qaeda video to Rana in Chicago.
The counts against Headley charging conspiracy to bomb public places in India that resulted in deaths and aiding and abetting the murders of U.S. nationals each carry a maximum statutory penalty of life imprisonment or death. All of the other counts against Headley carry a maximum of life imprisonment, except providing material support to the Denmark terror plot — against all four defendants — carries a maximum prison term of 15 years.
The other two material support counts against Rana, and the conspiracy to murder and maim people in Denmark against Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman, also carry a maximum of life in prison.
The government is being represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel Collins and Victoria J. Peters, as well as Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher Grigg and Janet Hudson of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office, with assistance from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
The public is reminded that an indictment contains mere allegations and is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
http://www.zeenews.com/news597628.html
David Headley, Tahawwur Rana to be arraigned next week
Updated on Thursday, January 21, 2010, 08:58 IST Tags:David Headley, Tahawwur Rana, Mumbai terror plot
SNIPPET: “Chicago: Terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana, indicted on charges of being involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, will be arraigned in a court here next week.
The arraignment of Rana and Headley was initially scheduled for today but have now been rescheduled. While Pakistani-Canadian citizen Rana will be arraigned on January 25, Pakistani-American Headley’s arraignment has been set for January 27 before US Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys in US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, US Attorney?s Office spokesman Randall Samborn said.
Further, a status hearing that was scheduled for today in Rana’s appeal of detention has also been cancelled and not yet been rescheduled, Samborn said.
Chicagoans Headley and Rana were indicted on January 14 by a federal grand jury on charges of being involved in the Mumbai attacks and planning a terror strike against a Danish newspaper in Copenhagen.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/chicago-mumbai-jihad-suspect-pleads-not-guilty.html
(CHICAGO SUN TIMES)
January 25, 2010
“Chicago: Mumbai jihad suspect pleads not guilty”
SNIPPET: “The other man, David Coleman Headley, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Chicago.”
SNIPPET: “Rana, who is being housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago, is appealing a ruling that says he must stay behind bars pending trial. He’s seeking to be freed on bail.
Blegen said his client has no intention of fleeing and leaving his family holding the bag. “He wants to fight this,” Blegen said.”
INDIAN EXPRESS.com: "MISSING LINK IN PROBE: New Delhi - HEADLEY'S 'AFRICAN ASSOCIATE' IN MUMBAI" by Ritu Sarin (SNIPPET: "While the two women who were frequently spotted with David Headley during his nine visits to India -- a 30-year-old Moroccan and 28-year-old Mumbai hotel employee -- have since been identified, Indian agencies are still trying to trace an African national who has been described as a "close associate" of the Lashkar-e-Toiba operative.") (January 29, 2010, 0215 hrs)
DNA INDIA.com: Mumbai - "RANA STAYED AT POWAI HOTEL JUST BEFORE 26/11" by Somendra Sharma/DNA (SNIPPET: "Tahawwur Rana, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspect and associate of Pakistan-born American national David Coleman Headley, had stayed in a five-star hotel in Powai in November 2008, just days before the Mumbai terror attacks. Although the purpose of his visit is unknown, officials in the security establishment believe that the hotel served as a base in his hunt for terror targets in the vicinity.") (January 29, 2010, 1:00 IST)
“’ISI, LeT getting Indian jihadis together in Karachi for attack’”
Shishir Gupta
Posted: Feb 01, 2010 at 0349 hrs IST
SNIPPET: “New Delhi The ISI has put together a team of Indian jihadis in Karachi, and is waiting to launch them into the country on a terrorist project, alleged terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Mohammad Amjad Khwaja have told their interrogators.
Headley was arrested by the FBI in Chicago in October last year, and is accused of recceing Mumbai and other Indian cities for the Lashkar-e-Toiba as part of the preparations for 26/11. Khwaja, belonging to the Harkat-ul Jihad-i Islami, was arrested on January 18, and is being held in Hyderabad.
Headley has described the “Karachi project” to FBI interrogators, details of which have been shared with New Delhi, sources said. He is believed to have said that both the ISI and the Lashkar have been training Indian nationals in terrorist activities, and using them for anti-India “projects” from time to time.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also been able to unearth significant details about Headley’s movements in Pakistan through his e-mail correspondence. Contents of his Gmail account were shared with New Delhi following an official request to Google.”
SNIPPET: “Evidence of the ISI-Lashkar Karachi project has also come independently from HuJI man Khwaja, who was picked up by Chennai Police on his return from Saudi Arabia on a Pakistani passport. Top sources said Khwaja has told his interrogators that a large number of highly-indoctrinated jihadi Indian nationals have been housed in the Pakistani port city.”
Note: Ongoing thread.
“The Curious Case of Daood Gilani alias David Headley & co”
BTTT
Thank you Jet Jaguar — a work in progress.
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2456037/posts
THE LONG ARM OF LASHKAR-E-TAIBA
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE.org - PolicyWatch No. 1631 ^ | February 17, 2010 | By Stephen Tankel
Posted on February 20, 2010 10:49:29 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: “In his February 2 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair highlighted the growing danger posed by Pakistani militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Calling the group a “special case,” he asserted that it is “becoming more of a direct threat and is placing Western targets in Europe in its sights.” He also expressed concern that it could “actively embrace” a more anti-Western agenda. Given its global capabilities with regard to fundraising, logistics, support, and operations, LeT could pose a serious threat to U.S. interests. Consequently, weakening it should be a high priority for Washington.”
SNIPPET: “Lashkar also boasts operatives in a number of Western countries, including Britain and the United States.”
SNIPPET: “LeT’s main enemy remains India, but it is clearly becoming more of a threat to the West.”
SNIPPET: “Convincing Pakistan to ramp up its efforts against LeT should remain a priority for the United States and its allies. In the short term, Islamabad must use its leverage to keep the group from executing any attack against India that could trigger a war and destabilize South Asia.
The United States should also push Pakistan to provide information necessary to degrade LeT’s transnational networks. Although Islamabad’s assistance is critical in this regard, so too is the cooperation of U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, where more could be done to disrupt Lashkar’s activities.”
Note: “Stephen Tankel is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of the forthcoming book Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtoninstitute.org ...
“’ISI, LeT getting Indian jihadis together in Karachi for attack’”
Shishir Gupta
Posted: Feb 01, 2010 at 0349 hrs IST
SNIPPET: “New Delhi The ISI has put together a team of Indian jihadis in Karachi, and is waiting to launch them into the country on a terrorist project, alleged terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Mohammad Amjad Khwaja have told their interrogators.
Headley was arrested by the FBI in Chicago in October last year, and is accused of recceing Mumbai and other Indian cities for the Lashkar-e-Toiba as part of the preparations for 26/11. Khwaja, belonging to the Harkat-ul Jihad-i Islami, was arrested on January 18, and is being held in Hyderabad.
Headley has described the “Karachi project” to FBI interrogators, details of which have been shared with New Delhi, sources said. He is believed to have said that both the ISI and the Lashkar have been training Indian nationals in terrorist activities, and using them for anti-India.”
UPDATE:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2106016,headley-to-plead-guilty-in-mumbai-terror-031610.article
“Chicago man to plead guilty in 2008 Mumbai terror attacks
David Headley had been cooperating with authorities”
March 16, 2010
By NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter
SNIPPET: “Chicagoan David Headley — a key figure in the ongoing investigation into the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India — plans to plead guilty this week.
Headley, 49, is scheduled to change his plea Thursday before U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago, according to court records.
Among the charges facing Headley, an American of Pakistani descent, is conspiracy to bomb public places. That charge carries a possible death sentence.”
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