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“Accused in India massacre claims ties to Pakistani secret service”
COLIN FREEZE
From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Apr. 11, 2011 8:43PM EDT
Last updated Monday, Apr. 11, 2011 11:15PM EDT
SNIPPET: ““Defendant’s proposed defence is that his alleged illegal acts of providing material support to terrorists – at least those related to the Mumbai attacks – were done at the behest of the Pakistani government and the ISI, not the Lashkar terrorist organization,” reads the decision. “He argues that he is entitled to a public-authority defence because he acted under the authority – whether actual or apparent – of the Pakistani government and the ISI.”
Prosecutors also say they caught Mr. Rana and Mr. Headley on tape after the Mumbai attacks, discussing a plot to kill a Danish cartoonist who had lampooned the Prophet Mohammed.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1520.pdf
http://www.investigativeproject.org/topics/51/lashkar-e-tayyiba
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2791/four-added-to-lashkar-prosecution
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Four Added to Lashkar Prosecution”
by IPT News • Apr 25, 2011 at 6:24 pm
SNIPPET: “Prosecutors in Chicago have added four defendants to a case involving planning for the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India that killed 164 people.
The four, Sajid Mir, Abu Qahafa, Mazhar Iqbal and a man known only as “Major Iqbal” are charged with conspiracy to murder and maim people in India and with six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India.
None of the men added to the case are in custody.
Co-defendant Tahawwur Hussain Rana faces a May 16 trial date. Last year, David Coleman Headley, an American of Pakistani descent, pleaded guilty to charges he helped plan the Mumbai attack by scouting the targets for the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and of scouting a proposed follow-up attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Mir also was charged in connection with the Danish plot.”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE.com: "TRIAL WILL PROBE ALLEGED CHICAGO TIES TO MUMBAI ATTACK Businessman charged with helping admitted scout for terrorist group" BY ANNIE SWEENEY (SNIPPET: "Tahawwur Hussain Rana...") (May 5, 2011, 10:21 pm CDT)
“Pak aims to block lawsuit against ISI chief in US court”
May 11, 2011, 05.53pm IST
SNIPPET: “ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing to block a lawsuit in a US court that alleges complicity of its spy chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha in the audacious 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, on the grounds that it will pour “gasoline on the fire” of Indo-Pak relations.”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/05/ap_how_osama_bin_laden_emailed.php
“Osama bin Laden’s Internet connection”
By THOMAS JOSCELYN
May 12, 2011 7:25 PM
SNIPPET: “Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press have a new piece out explaining how, according to US officials, Osama bin Laden emailed with members of his network.
Holed up in his walled compound in northeast Pakistan with no phone or Internet capabilities, bin Laden would type a message on his computer without an Internet connection, then save it using a thumb-sized flash drive. He then passed the flash drive to a trusted courier, who would head for a distant Internet cafe.
At that location, the courier would plug the memory drive into a computer, copy bin Laden’s message into an email and send it. Reversing the process, the courier would copy any incoming email to the flash drive and return to the compound, where bin Laden would read his messages offline.”
SNIPPET: “Finally, the 100 flash memory drives captured indicate that far from being a mere figurehead or symbol — bin Laden was still operationally active.”
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/10/report_osama_bin_lad_1.php
“Report: Osama bin Laden ordered Mumbai-style attacks in Europe”
By THOMAS JOSCELYN & BILL ROGGIO
October 1, 2010
SNIPPET: “NPR reported on Thursday that “bin Laden used couriers to send a message to” al Qaeda’s “affiliates and partners.” He wanted them to emulate a “Mumbai-style attack” in the United Kingdom, Germany and France. NPR also reported that US intelligence officials are currently investigating the possibility that the US was a target as well.”
SNIPPET: “The recently foiled plot against Europe demonstrates, yet again, that al Qaeda works in concert with a number of like-minded jihadist organizations based in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [See LWJ report, Al Qaeda is the tip of the jihadist spear.]”
SNIPPET: “According to NPR, Siddiqui was sheltered by the Haqqani Network in Pakistan. The Haqqani Network has longstanding ties to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda, the Haqqani Network, and the Taliban cooperate in attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. Siraj Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani Network, is a member of al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis.
In Afghanistan, Siddiqui became a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), an al Qaeda affiliate that has primarily fought alongside the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The IMU is known as a guerilla-style fighting organization. But in keeping with bin Laden’s vision of folding local organizations into his international jihad, the IMU contributed to this latest plot by accepting Siddiqui into its ranks and possibly doing more.
The plot itself was supposed to be modeled after the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, which were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET). The LET was originally founded by the Pakistani military and intelligence establishment to fight Indian forces in Kashmir. It currently assists the Taliban and al Qaeda in operations in Afghanistan and has an international presence, including inside the US.
Al Qaeda has long worked closely with the LET.”
SNIPPET: “Speaking to students at Duke University at Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates explained that the US-led coalition’s enemy in Afghanistan “is increasingly an unholy syndicate of terrorist groups working together: al Qaeda, the Haqqani network, the Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan Taliban and groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba.””
http://www.investigativeproject.org/topics/51/lashkar-e-tayyiba
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2138741/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367275/posts
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2873/trial-poses-new-challenge-to-us-pakistani
“Trial Poses New Challenge to U.S.-Pakistani Relations”
by Abha Shankar
IPT News
May 17, 2011
http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/20/lashkar_e_taiba_mumbai_and_the_isi
“Lashkar-e-Taiba, Mumbai, and the ISI”
BY STEPHEN TANKEL
Friday, May 20, 2011 - 4:47 PM
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2899/testimony-details-mumbai-denmark-plots
“Testimony Details Mumbai, Denmark Plots”
by Abha Shankar
IPT News
May 25, 2011
SNIPPET: “CHICAGO – The terrorists responsible for the 2008 attack on Mumbai had plans for additional strikes against Indian military targets and against Jews, a former operative testified Tuesday.
David Headley’s testimony focused on details in the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, including six Americans. Headley is a key witness against a Chicago businessman charged with aiding the plot.
Tahawuur Rana allowed his immigration company’s Mumbai office to serve as Headley’s cover to scout targets for the attacks for Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. Rana knew about the plot and supported it, Headley said. He has testified that members of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services, the ISI, also helped plot and finance the attacks.”
“Headley provides more details about Mumbai attacks”
By Sebastian Rotella, Published: May 24
CHICAGO —
SNIPPET: “Headley said his ISI handler, a man known only as Major Iqbal, deployed him on the last of five reconnaissance missions to scout targets that included the Chabad House, a Jewish community center where gunmen later killed three American rabbis.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2919/trial-first-week-reinforces-pakistani
“Trial’s First Week Reinforces Pakistani Intelligence Suspicions”
by Abha Shankar
IPT News
May 27, 2011
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2915/us-sees-lashkar-e-tayyiba-as-dangerous-as-al-qaida
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“U.S. Sees Lashkar-e-Tayyiba as Dangerous as al-Qaida”
by IPT News • May 27, 2011 at 12:34 pm
SNIPPET: “Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told top Indian security officials in New Delhi Friday that the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) is as much of a threat as al-Qaida.
“The LeT is ranked right up there with Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-related groups as a terrorist organization, one that seeks to harm people and take innocent lives,” Napolitano said in a joint press conference with Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram. “In the US perspective, the LeT is an organization of the same ranking as the Al Qaeda-related groups.”
Napolitano’s assertion came in the midst of the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, accused of complicity in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. A key witness in the trial, American-Pakistani David Coleman Headley, who has admitted to involvement in the attacks, has also implicated LeT and the Pakistani Intelligence service (ISI). LeT, however, denies any involvement.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367275/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138741/posts
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For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Chicago Businessman Found Guilty on Two Counts in Terrorism Trial”
SNIPPET: “A federal jury Thursday found a Pakistan-born Chicago businessman guilty on charges of participating in a conspiracy to attack a Danish newspaper and providing material support to the Pakistan-based terror group, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT).
Tahawwur Rana was acquitted on the charge of conspiring to provide material support to the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist strike that killed over 160 people, including six Americans.
The verdict came after two days of jury deliberations following a trial that began May 16.
Prosecutors alleged Rana’s immigration company provided cover to American Lashkar operative David Headley to scout targets for the Mumbai attacks. David Headley pleaded guilty last year to his role in plotting the attacks and was the prosecution’s star witness in the trial.
In his testimony, Headley said Rana knew about the plot and supported it. He also testified that members of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services, the ISI, also helped plot and finance the attacks.
Headley’s testimony was corroborated by other evidence presented at the trial, including e-mails, tape recordings and videotaped admissions, Assistant U.S. Attorney Victoria Peters said in her closing arguments Tuesday.
Prosecutors also claimed Rana assisted Headley in a plot to attack the offices of the Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten. The newspaper’s 2005 publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad had unleashed a wave of protests across the Muslim world.”
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http://news.intelwire.com/2011/06/tahawwur-rana-interrogation-video.html
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“Judge: Unseal Mumbai terror trial documents”
By Becky Schlikerman
Tribune reporter
12:26 p.m. CDT, July 19, 2011
SNIPPET: “A federal judge today ordered the release of more than two dozen sealed documents following the conviction last month of a Chicago businessman on charges he aided in a plot to storm a Danish newspaper that had printed cartoons that angered many in the Muslim world.
U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber ordered some 30 court filings made public after the Chicago Tribune intervened to unseal the records.
Tahawwur Rana was convicted of helping a friend since boyhood in the aborted plan to behead staffers at the Copenhagen newspaper.”
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February 18, 2012
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_260800/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=3AM8gz0l
“Delhi court to try US terrorist Headley, 8 others”
Published: Today
SNIPPET: “NEW DELHI (AP) - A New Delhi court agreed Saturday to try admitted American terrorist David Headley and eight others for allegedly carrying out the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, local media reported.
The court’s decision allows Indian investigators to seek Headley’s extradition from the United States, where he is in prison after admitting to laying the groundwork for the three-day shooting rampage in India’s largest city. However, his plea agreement with U.S. authorities said Headley would not be extradited if he cooperated with investigators.”
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "REPORT: OSAMA BIN LADEN HELPED PLAN MUMBAI ATTACKS" by Thomas Joscelyn (SNIPPET: "Assuming bin Laden's files show what has been reported, the documents raise new questions about the former al Qaeda master's ties to elements of Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment.") (April 5, 2012) (Read More...)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "MUMBAI ATTACK 'MASTERMIND' HAFIZ SAEED LINKED TO OSAMA BIN LADEN A $10m bounty was placed on the head of a Pakistani militant leader after the US obtained evidence he had been in close contact with Osama bin Laden, planning terrorist attacks, according to a former American intelligence official." by Rob Crilly, Rawalpindi and Dean Nelson in New Delhi (April 4, 2012, 3:08 pm BST) (Read More...)
http://dawn.com/2012/06/25/suspect-arrested-in-india-over-mumbai-attacks-reports/
“Suspect arrested in India over Mumbai attacks: reports”
AFP | 2 hours ago
SNIPPET: “NEW DELHI: Indian police have arrested a key suspect accused of co-ordinating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed and more than 300 wounded, media reports said Monday.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency quoted unnamed police sources as confirming the arrest of Abu Hamza, also known as Sayed Zabiuddin, an Indian-born member of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Hamza was allegedly one of the handlers based in Karachi, Pakistan who issued instructions by telephone to the 10 gunmen as they stormed two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre, a restaurant and a train station in Mumbai.
Hamza, who has used a string of aliases, was arrested at Delhi international airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East and he has since been remanded in custody, PTI reported.”
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http://www.indiyanews.com/2012/06/delhi-police-arrested-2611-attack-key-plotter-abu-hamza/
“Delhi police arrested 26/11 attack key plotter Abu Hamza”
Monday, June 25th, 2012 | Filed under India News | Posted by Taani
SNIPPET: “June 25, New Delhi: The Delhi Police on today arrested suspected key 26/11 Mumbai attacks plotter Abu Hamza at the Indira Gandhi International airport. Sources say Hamza was arriving in Delhi from the Gulf.
According to police sources, the suspect – identified as Syed Jabeeudeen alias Sayeed Zabi ud Deen alias Zabi Ansari alias Riyasat Ali– is believed to have provided assistance to 26/11 terrorists.
He is reported to be involved with the Indian Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba terror groups. The suspect had been on the run since 2006 when he went to Pakistan, Indian media claimed.
He was active with SIMI for 2 years before moving on to Lashkar. He is also a key suspect in the 2006 Mumbai Local Train blast. Over 180 were killed in Mumbai Local attack.”
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_26-11-trial-5-witnesses-testify-on-terrorists-training_1746847
“26/11 trial: 5 witnesses testify on terrorists’ training”
Published: Saturday, Sep 29, 2012, 16:27 IST
Agency: PTI
SNIPPET: “However, the sources said most of the testimony of the five witnesses had focused on the terrorist training camps that were attended by the attackers.”
SNIPPET: “Lakhvi and six other suspects have been charged with planning, financing and facilitating the attacks that killed 166 people.”
SNIPPET: “The trial is being conducted behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpidni for security reasons.
Pakistani authorities recently increased security at the prison after intelligence agencies reported that the Taliban could attack it to free militants being held there.”