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.”