That's Hedley
Posted on 11/08/2009 10:31:24 AM PST by mylife
FBI foils LeT plan to carry out major terror attack in India
Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba was planning to use an American national to carry out a major terrorist attack in India, US investigating authorities said on Tuesday.
The man, identified as David Coleman Headley, was arrested early this month by FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force at O'Hare International Airport before boarding a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan.
49-year-old Headley, along with a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, have been arrested on charges of plotting a terror attack against the facilities and employees of a Danish newspaper which had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
The Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, also known as Tahawar Rana, was also a resident of Chicago and was arrested by the FBI on October 18.
Rana is the owner of several businesses, including First World Immigration Services, which has offices on Devon Avenue in Chicago, as well as in New York and Toronto.
According to the FBI affidavit filed in a Chicago court, Headley was in close contact with Ilyas Kashmiri and several unidentified leaders of LeT.
Kashmiri is the operational chief of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir section of Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI), a Pakistani-based terrorist organisation with links to al Qaeda.
Kashmiri, who is presently believed to be in Pakistan's restive Waziristan tribal region, issued a statement this month that he was alive and working with al-Qaeda.
The identities of other LeT leaders, who are associated with Kashmiri, have not been revealed and is mentioned as "LeT member A" and "LeT member B" in the affidavit.
"In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of e-mails with LeT Member A, including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT Member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack," the FBI said in its affidavit.
"These e-mails reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark," it said.
After this time, Headley and LeT Member A allegedly continued focusing on the plan with Kashmiri to attack the newspaper, rather than working with LeT, the complaint alleges.
In January 2009, Headley travelled to Copenhagen, Denmark, and Rana allegedly arranged portions of his travel. In late July 2009, Headley travelled again to Copenhagen and to other locations in Europe, and Rana again arranged portions of his travel.
After returning to Chicago in August, Headley allegedly used coded language to repeatedly inquire if Individual A had been in touch with Kashmiri regarding planning for the attack, and expressing concern that Individual A's communications with Kashmiri had been cut off.
In early September, Headley and Rana took a lengthy car ride during which they discussed the activities of the other individuals, including past terrorist acts, and Headley discussed with Rana five actions involving targets that expressly included Denmark.
"In conversations with Rana and Individual A in August and September, Headley indicated that if the 'doctor' (alleged to be a reference to Kashmiri) and his people were unable to assist, then Headley would perform the planned operation himself."
According to the affidavit, Headley stated in conversations last month that he intended to travel to Pakistan in October to meet with Individual A and Kashmiri, and he was arrested on October 3 as he prepared to board a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan.
During a search of Headley's luggage, a memory stick was recovered that contained approximately 10 short videos of Copenhagen, including video focused on the Jyllands-Posten building in King's Square taken both during the day and night, as well as a nearby Danish military barracks and the exterior and interior of Copenhagen's central train station, consistent with the checklist he stored which mentioned "route design".
But the FBI gives a “no terrorism here” pass to Hasan?
( FBI foils LeT plan to carry out major terror attack in India ) but, they watched the terrorist who shoot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood for 6 months and let him slip by.
And I don’t think it was a little “ oversight “ or “ mistake “ by them either.
“Rana is the owner of several businesses, including First World Immigration Services”
Hmmmm,,, Do ya think he got anybody “interesting” into the country?
I find it odd that I had to find this story in an Indian paper.
If it was reported here, I missed it.
Scary isnt it?
I remember the story about rounding the two up, but it didn’t include “the plan”.
I guess I missed the story.
They had the part about Copenhagen, but not the one about India.
That's Hedley
LoL!
Thanks. I guess I missed the story
Too busy calling Veterans terrorists .....
BUMP!
USE THEIR MUSLIM NAMES!! David Coleman Headley, this guy changed his name to an American name. Jose Padilla, Johnny Taliban and Adam Gadahn all changed their name to a Muslim name. The media’s political correctness and 13 dead in Texas out of political correctness. Face reality Americans. Don’t let the elites set the tone, we outnumber them.
Whats his Muslim name?
I didnt write the article
Dawood gilani.
Thanks. I had not heard the name before
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