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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2928/headley-part-of-al-qaida-plot-to-attack-lockheed
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Headley Part of al-Qaida Plot to Attack Lockheed Martin
by IPT News • May 31, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Self-confessed Mumbai plotter David Coleman Headley testified Tuesday that he was part of an al-Qaida inspired plot to assassinate the chief of U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin.
The plot was the brainchild of Ilyas Kashmiri, leader of the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), and a senior commander of al Qaida’s deadly 313 Brigade.
Headley is the key prosecution witness in the ongoing terrorism trial of a Chicago businessman, Tahawuur Hussain Rana. He used Rana’s immigration office in Mumbai as a cover to scout for targets for the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist strike. Ten gunmen from the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) are suspected of being behind the plot that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
Headley has pleaded guilty to his role in the attacks and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators in exchange for evading the death penalty.
Headley told the jury he used Rana’s computer to research details about Lockheed Martin and its CEO for Kashmiri, who was outraged at American drone strikes in Pakistan and wanted to attack the U.S. defense contractor in retaliation.
“There was a plan to kill him because he was making drones,” Headley said.
ADDING to post no. 143...
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-monrovia1-m,0,2234779.story
“Al Qaeda-linked website threatens Monrovia drone maker’s executives”
By Richard Winton
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 1, 2011, 11:26 a.m.
SNIPPET: “The targeting of corporate executives from military suppliers first came public in May. At a trial in Chicago, an accused terrorist, David Headley, acknowledged that a Pakistan-based branch of Al Qaeda had plotted to kill Robert Stevens, the head of Lockheed Martin. The company manufacturers drones prominently used in targeting Osama bin Laden and other members of the terror network.
The list came from the Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Al Mujahedeen jihadist forum and was first made public on the Homeland Security Today website.
The security website obtained a a jihadist “hit list” of 58 people that accompanied a June 6 Florida federal bulletin.”