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Chicago terror suspect is Pakistani army deserter
ABClocal.go.com/WLS ^ | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 | Chuck Goudie

Posted on 01/11/2010 1:54:32 AM PST by Cindy

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SNIPPET: "January 6, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- The Chicago businessman used the so-called 'deserter defense' in a motion filed in federal court, as he renewed his effort today to be freed on bond. Rana is seeking release as he awaits trial on charges that he took part in a plan to attack a Danish newspaper over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that offended Muslims."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cartoonjihad; cartoonplot; chicago; denmark; globaljihad; headley; illegalimmigration; jihad; mumbai; pakistan; rana

1 posted on 01/11/2010 1:54:35 AM PST by Cindy
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ABClocal.go.com: "CHICAGO TERROR SUSPECT IS PAKISTANI ARMY DESERTER" by Chuck Goudie (SNIPPET: "Rana") (January 6, 2010)

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE.com: "CHICAGO IMMIGRATION AGENCY A FRONT FOR TERROR PLOT, FEDERAL PROBERS ALLEGE U.s. Probe Targets Operations of First World Immigration" by Antonio Olivo (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.") (January 3, 2010)
SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS.org - Paper no. 3561: "NEED TO FOCUS MORE ON RANA - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 593" by B. Raman (December 23, 2009)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ABC NEWS): "AUTHORITIES: 'CHICAGO MAN' CHARGED WITH HELPING PLOT MUMBAI ATTACKS ALSO CONDUCTED SURVEILLANCE OF NUCLEAR PLANT" (December 20, 2009)

TIMESnow.tv: "HEADLEY, KASAV'S HANDLER DECLARES WAR ON INDIA" (SNIPPET: "Al-Qaeda and HuJI commander Ilyas Kashmiri has issued a chilling warning to India in a letter that he sent to terror outfits. Kashmiri says he knows the routes to send suicide bombing squads into the country. Ilyas Kashmiri, the face of the Al Qaeda in NWFP is now training guns on India. TIMES NOW has accessed the copy of Kashmiri's letter, sent to various jehadi outfits calling for more terror attacks in India -- underlining a new strategy to spread terror.") (18 Dec 2009, 0854 hrs IST)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - The Threat Matrix - blog: "UNDERSTANDING INDIAN PRESS RUMORS ABOUT HEADLEY" by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (SNIPPET: "Further, claims about Headley grow more outlandish by the day.") (December 17, 2009, 8:30 pm)

SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP - Paper no. 3552: "HEADLEY: A QUADRUPLE AGENT - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper no. 592" by B. Raman (December 16, 2009)

SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP - Paper no. 3549: "HEADLEY'S CASE FIGURES IN SENATE COMMITTEE" by B. Raman (December 15, 2009)

TIMES OF INDIA: "INDIA'S SUSPICION ABOUT US CAGINESS OVER HEADLEY DEEPENS" by Vishwa Mohann, TNN (December 16, 2009, 2:54 am IST)

News.REDIFF.com: "DECEPTIVE ANSWERS AT THE AIRPORT LED TO HEADLEY'S ARREST" (SNIPPET: "Headley's cellphone was registered to a dead man, as was his Chicago apartment, according to the FBI. He changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 to further his cover, according to the FBI.") (Last updated December 9, 2009, 14:55 IST)
TIMES OF INDIA: "HEADLEY MISREPRESENTED FACTS WHILE APPLYING FOR INDIA VISA" (December 8, 2009, 12:35 pm IST)

SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS.org - Paper no. 3539: "HEADLEY'S ROLE IN MUMBAI 26/11 CONSPIRACY & HIS PAKISTANI HANDLERS - International Terrorism Monitor -- Paper No. 586" by B. Raman (December 8, 2009)

Chicago.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: "CHICAGOAN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY IN 2008 MUMBAI ATTACKS IN ADDITION TO FOREIGN TERROR PLOT IN DENMARK Additional Charges Unsealed Alleging Retired Pakistani Major Conspired in Danish Plot" (SNIPPET: "The defendant, David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen, earlier this decade allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar e Tayyiba (Lashkar), and conspired with its members and others in planning and executing the attacks in both Denmark and India, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Also today, a criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Chicago charging Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed (Abdur Rehman), a retired major in the Pakistani military, with conspiracy in planning to attack the Danish newspaper and its employees. Another Chicago man, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan, was arrested in October on federal charges filed in Chicago relating to the Danish terrorism plot.") (December 7, 2009)
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News.REDIFF.com: "HEADLEY USED WOMEN AS COVER IN INDIA" (December 4, 2009, 15:31 IST)

DAWN.com: "LASHKAR-I-TAIBA DENIES LINKS TO U.S. ARRESTS" (November 30, 2009)

OTTAWA CITIZEN.com: "NEW SUSPECT LINKED TO CARTOON PLOT Man detained at behest of FBI may have connection" (SNIPPET: "Illyas Kashmiri, a former Pakistani military officer and now a reputed commander of the Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) militant group, is believed to have been detained by Pakistan at the behest of the FBI, according to an unconfirmed report in The Times of India." SNIPPET: "If confirmed, Kashmiri's arrest will expand the global nature of the case, which already has connections to Chicago, Copenhagen, Mumbai and Kanata.") (November 24, 2009)
HINDUSTAN TIMES.com: "U.S. SHARES INFO WITH INDIA ON HEADLEY'S ISI LINKS" (November 22, 2009)

HINDUSTAN TIMES.com (PRESS TRUST OF INDIA): London - "PAKISTANI FATHER-SON DUO HELD IN ITALY OVER MUMBAI ATTACKS" (SNIPPET: "They said Indian agencies are also trying to find out whether the arrested persons had any links with David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana...") (Last updated November 21, 2009, 15:01 IST)
SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP.org - Paper 3514: "HEADLEY-RANA CASE: NEED FOR CAUTION" by B. Raman (November 20, 2009)

HINDUSTAN TIMES.com (INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE): "EVIDENCE BUILDING OF HEADLEY AND RANA'S LINKS TO 26/11" (Last updated November 19, 2009, 18:35)

PAJAMAS MEDIA.com - blog: "U.S. NOW EXPORTS TERROR: AMERICAN LINKED TO MUMBAI ATTACK A Chicago-area raid looks to have captured a planner of the massacre." by Rusty Shackleford (November 17, 2009)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - For The Record - blog: "BOLLYWOOD ACTOR CAST IN REAL-LIFE CHICAGO TERROR PLOT" (November 16, 2009)

GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE.org (REUTERS): "SECURITY INCREASED AT INDIAN NUCLEAR SITES OVER POSSIBLE ATTACK" (November 16, 2009)

GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE.org (AP): "PAKISTANI TERRORISTS PLOTTING NEW ATTACKS IN INDIA, SINGH WARNS" (August 17, 2009)

TIMES OF INDIA: New Delhi - "HOTELS TOLD TO KEEP EYE ON FOREIGNERS" by Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN (SNIPPET: "The David Headley case has spurred Delhi Police into stepping up its vigil on foreign tourists...") (November 16, 2009, 12:43 am IST)

TELEGRAPH INDIA.com: 'HEADLEY MAPPED ALL '26/11 TARGETS' - U.S. SUSPECT POSED AS JEW: POLICE" by Samyabrata Ray Goswami (SNIPPET: "The FBI seized a book called HOW TO PRAY LIKE A JEW from him at the time of his arrest in Chicago. He had prepared himself thoroughly to pose as a Jew," the officer said.") (November 15, 2009)
SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP - Paper no. 3506: "THE 313 BRIGADE - International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 579" by B. Raman (SNIPPET: "20. Ilyas sees himself as another Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and wants to carry out a spectacular terrorist strike in a Western country. The purpose of his trying to use David Coleman Headley, of Chicago arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Chicago on October 3, 2009, was for an attack on the Danish journal, which carried caricatures of the Prophet in 2005. A perusal of the FBI's affidavit against Headley shows that while Ilyas wanted a Mumbai -- 26/11 style attack in Copenhagen, Headley felt that a more feasible option would be to assassinate the cartoonist and his Editor.") (November 16, 2009)
INDIAN EXPRESS.com - News: "HEADLEY AT THE TAJ, RANA ACROSS INDIA" (SNIPPET: "Meanwhile, a real estate agent, Sunny Singh, presented himself to the media today claiming that Headley approached him as recently as just over a month ago looking to rent an apartment in Bandra. "He came with a woman called Anna whom he introduced as his wife. He told me he had come with a reference from another woman named Marina," Singh claimed. "He was willing to pay around Rs 50,000 and a deal was nearly final but things did not work out when he refused to give his visa documents and a letter from his employer."") (Posted November 14, 2009, 0927 hrs)
LONG WAR JOURNAL - Threat Matrix - blog: "PAKISTANI GENERALS LINKED TO U.S. TERROR SUSPECTS" by Bill Roggio (November 13, 2009)

News.REDIFF.com: "HEADLEY MAY BE MISSING CLUE TO 26/11 PUZZLE" (SNIPPET: "Investigations showed that during his first visit to Mumbai in the year 2007, he stayed at the Taj Mahal hotel for nearly 10 days. As per investigations, Headley checked into room number 1809 in the Taj Mahal hotel and stayed there between April 20 and 30 2007. The IB says that this information is being verified and would prove crucial to the 26/11 probe." SNIPPET: "Another interesting detail that has cropped up during Headley's interrogation is that he shared direct links with the Pakistan Army through his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, whose two brothers are Brigadiers.") (November 13, 2009, 18:44 IST)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "RANA AND HEADLEY: SMART, BUT NOT WISE" (November 12, 2009)

NEWS.MSN.com: "FBI GETS 60 DAYS TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST INDIA TERROR PLOTTERS" (SNIPPET: "Chicago court’s chief Judge James F. Holderman has extended till next Jan 1, the period of filing indictment against the accused duo, David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born American national, and his Pakistan-born Canadian associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana.") (November 12, 2009)
SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP - Paper no. 3500: "Extracts from FBI Affidavit Regarding Headley's Contacts With Individual A & Let Member A: International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 575" by B. Raman (November 11, 2009)
SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP - Paper no. 3496: "FBI Affidavit Against Headley: References to India: International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 574" by B Raman (November 10, 2009)

INDIA-SERVER.com: India - "GOVT WARNS CITIZENS AGAINST TERROR ATTACKS IN FIVE MAJOR CITIES" (SNIPPET: "This Home Ministry alert is based on the inputs available from FBI, which they obtained while interrogating David Headley. It is supported by Indian intelligence agencies' inputs. Reports have mentioned that Headley was in Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Agra and Ahmedabad between 2006 and 2009 and hence the alerts are mainly for these cities.") (Last updated November 12, 2009)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE.com: "U.S. CITES AL-QAIDA DVDs IN PRESSING FOR SUSPECT'S DETAINMENT Chicago man allegedly plotted to attack Danish newspaper, target in India" by Jeff Coen (SNIPPET: "A federal judge could decide on Nov. 19 whether to release Rana, owner of a Chicago immigration business and a Grundy County meat processing plant, on bond pending trial.") (November 10, 2009)
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DNA INDIA.com/Mumbai: "HEADLEY RAN VISA AGENCY IN TARDEO BEFORE 26/11" (November 8, 2009, 2:38 IST)

HINDU.com: Washington - "INDIA BRIEFED ON HEADLEY CASE: U.S." (November 8, 2009)

TIMES OF INDIA: New Delhi - "'HEADLEY WAS IN INDIA ON RECCE'" Vishwa Mohan, TNN (November 8, 2009, 05:12 am IST)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "TRANSNATIONAL TERROR: LASHKAR-E-TAIBA'S CHICAGO PLOT" by Animesh Roul (November 6, 2009)

OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "HEADLEY & RANA - FROM CHICAGO TO COPENHAGEN WITH LOVE" (SNIPPET: "My read of the complaints is that Headley was involved in ongoing efforts to support Pakistan-based terrorist outfits, primarily by travelling to prospective sites of future targets and conducting surveillance. I suspect that there is more to Rana providing support to Headley than just the fact that they both attended the same military academy.") (October 30, 2009)
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TIMES OF INDIA: Washington - "TOP PAK DIPLOMAT KNEW U.S. LASHKAR OPERATIVES: FBI" (SNIPPET: "Pakistan's Consul General in Chicago personally knew both David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, nabbed by the FBI for planning to carry out a major terror attack in India at the behest of LeT, the US authorities have claimed.") (October 30, 2009, 2:02 pm IST)
TIMES OF INDIA: "IB, RAW TO PROBE INTO US LASHKAR OPERATIVE'S 'RAHUL' CONNECTION" by Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN (October 30, 2009, 01:05 am)

Chicago.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: Chicago - "TWO CHICAGO MEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH ALLEGED ROLES IN FOREIGN TERROR PLOT THAT FOCUSED ON TARGETS IN DENMARK" (SNIPPET: "The defendants charged in separate criminal complaints unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Chicago are David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, also known as Tahawar Rana...") (October 27, 2009)
DINAH LORD - blog: "MORE ABOUT TAHAWWUR HUSAIN RANA: THE MICKEY MOUSE PROJECT" (October 28, 2009)

TIMES OF INDIA: "FBI BUST LeT PLOT TO USE AMERICAN FOR ATTACKS IN INDIA, DENMARK" Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN (October 28, 2009, 01:01 IST)

THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "MOHAMMAD CARTOON PLOT ARRESTS IN CHICAGO LINKED TO IMMIGRATION COMPANY [Updated, Bumped - al Qaeda Connection!]" (October 27, 2009)

DINAH LORD - blog (WBBM780.com): "BREAKING: 2 MEN ARRESTED IN CHICAGO ON TERROR CHARGES" (SNIPPET: "WBBM's Regine Schlesinger reports the US Attorney's office in Chicago alleges that 49 year old David Coleman Headley. an American citizen who changed his name from Daood Gilani, and 48 year old Tahawar Rana, a Canadian citizen who lives in Chicago, were involved in a plot to support or carry out terror attacks.") (October 27, 2009, 9:26 am)
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TRUTHUSA.com: "A Look at More Than Cartoons"

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE.com: "2ND CHICAGO MAN TIED TO TERROR PLOT Man taken into custody at O'Hare was allegedly to meet with people linked to terrorist organizations" by Hal Dardick and Jeff Coen (SNIPPET: "The man was taken into custody Oct. 3 before he boarded a flight at O'Hare International Airport to Philadelphia, the first stop on a trip to Pakistan..." SNIPPET: "The owner of the plant, Tahawar Hussain Rana, also of Chicago, was arrested at his North Side home the same day as the raid on First World Management Services in Kinsman, northwest of Dwight." SNIPPET: "Rana financially supported the man involved in the terrorist plot, as well as the man's family, the source said.") (October 27, 2009)
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LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - Threat Matrix - blog: "FRENCH PROSECUTOR POINTS OUT PAKISTAN LINKS TO JIHADIS" by Bill Roggio (November 5, 2009, 12:48 pm)

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TIMESonline.co.uk: "MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKS: AND THEN THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS" (SNIPPET: "One more question remains: how did the terrorists and their handlers apparently know the layout of Nariman House, and the schedule of its inhabitants, so well? Suspicion has fallen on Jackie, the Muslim cook. Since the siege, he says he has had about 100 interviews with police and officials, including Israelis. Solomon Sopher, a leader of the Mumbai Jewish community, says he thinks Jackie is suspected not of direct collusion with terrorists, but perhaps of unwittingly revealing information to scouts who struck up a friendship with him. Jackie denies this, and it is probable that if there were evidence against him, he would have been charged.") (November 1, 2009)
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2 posted on 01/11/2010 1:55:37 AM PST by Cindy
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Tribune staff report
Posted on October 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.”

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3 posted on 01/11/2010 1:57:33 AM PST by Cindy
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A muslim cannot be trusted, even a little bit.


4 posted on 01/11/2010 2:32:25 AM PST by chainsaw ("When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson)
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Don’t let him bond out! He’ll fly the coop as soon as his feet hit the pavement. But, I’m sure our PTB will allow him bail in the interests of “diversity” and multiculturalism.


5 posted on 01/11/2010 3:07:36 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Rana is seeking release as he awaits trial on charges that he took part in a plan to attack a Danish newspaper over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that offended Muslims.
He's guilty, and should be buried to the waist and stoned to death.
6 posted on 01/11/2010 4:08:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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Islam is deciet at its very core.

Once anyone grasps that truth, everything else is transparent.


7 posted on 01/11/2010 5:26:09 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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Was this Paki deserter in Chicago also just another guy who lived down the street from Bill Ayers??


8 posted on 01/11/2010 7:48:32 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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