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Home Front: WoT
David Coleman Headley had ties to Pakistan: FBI
2009-11-20
Aren't he and his business partner both closely related to Pakistani generals? And isn't Mr. Headley's original name actually Daoud Khalil or something similarly non-Anglo-Saxon?
[Dawn] Authorities in India say a Chicago man accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper may have been involved in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. The FBI says it has evidence David Coleman Headley was in contact with the Pakistani group that the Indian government blames for the Mumbai attacks that left 166 dead and 308 wounded. But they say only that the contact happened while he allegedly planned and carried out reconnaissance this year near the newspaper offices in Copenhagen, AP reported.

The 49-year-old Headley is accused of plotting to kill one of the editors and a cartoonist at the Danish paper for publishing 12 cartoons in 2005 depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which ignited outrage in much of the Muslim world.
A plot suggested by his Lashkar-e-Taiba handler, as I recall.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Correction: his birth name was Daood Gilani, he changed it in 2006 according to the Washington Post, which adds

Until 2006, he was Daood Gilani, but he told investigators he had changed his name to raise less suspicion when he traveled abroad. He lived anonymously in an apartment leased in the name of a dead person. He changed e-mail accounts often and spoke in code on the telephone.

The strategy worked less than perfectly, according to the FBI, which arrested him on terrorism charges last month at O'Hare International Airport on the first leg of a trip to Pakistan. In his luggage were digital videos he took of a Danish newspaper office and a book titled "How to Pray Like a Jew."

The rest of the article is well worth skimming, just for tiny details.
Posted by: trailing wife    2009-11-20 17:02  

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