PRESS RELEASE: Chicagoan Charged With Conspiracy In 2008 Mumbai Attacks In Addition To Foreign Terro

[Coventina]

Source: Wall Street Journal

CHICAGO ??? New federal charges filed today allege that a Chicago man, who was arrested in October for planning terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper and two of its employees, also conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 terrorist attack on India's largest city that killed approximately 170 people, including six Americans, and injured hundreds more.

The defendant, David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen, earlier this decade allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar e Tayyiba (Lashkar), and conspired with its members and others in planning and executing the attacks in both Denmark and India, federal law enforcement officials announced today.

Also today, a criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court in Chicago charging Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed (Abdur Rehman), a retired major in the Pakistani military, with conspiracy in planning to attack the Danish newspaper and its employees. Another Chicago man, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan, was arrested in October on federal charges filed in Chicago relating to the Danish terrorism plot.

Through his attorneys, Headley has authorized the Justice Department to disclose that he is cooperating in the ongoing investigation of both the Danish and Indian terror plots. He has remained in federal custody without bond since he was arrested in Chicago on Oct. 3, 2009. No date has been set yet for his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091207-708613.html

[kestrel91316]

1. Chicago? Well, there you have it - proof that Obama is muslin.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Exactly. I was going to ask if this guy and the President ever shared the

same car on the subway in Chicago...obvious evidence of a long-term conspiracy

[kestrel91316]

3. No, but I bet Obama sent emails. And the guy undoubtedly has sent emails, too.

To SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE, at SOME time.

[alp227]

4. Also, check out the way Obama pronounces "Pakistan"

Rhymes with "paw" not "pat" in his vocabulary. Could that really mean a link between Obama and Headley? :sarcasm:

But seriously though, if Headley is found to have aided the terrorists who bombed Bombay, kudos to the Justice Department for getting him.

[TheCoxwain]

5. Chicago Man Is Charged in 2008 Attack on Mumbai

Source: Nytimes

WASHINGTON — The Chicago man with roots in Pakistan who was arrested two months ago for planning to attack a Danish newspaper now faces the much more serious charge that he aided the 2008 massacre in Mumbai, according to court documents filed by the Justice Department.

Court documents charge that David Coleman Headley, 49, an American citizen who is the son of a former Pakistani diplomat and Philadelphia socialite, with conducting extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years prior to the attacks by the Pakistan-based terrorist group called Lakshar-e-Taiba. The attacks left 170 people dead, including six Americans.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/world/asia/08terror.html?_r=1&hp

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Holy Smoke !!! I always thought that terrorism had its roots in poverty and lack of opportunity ...

Al Qaeda is indeed a malignant cancer for our species.

[cosmicone]

7. No -- Pakistan is the malignancy.

These people including Al Q'aida would go nowhere without the active funding, shelter, arms and training provided by the government of Pakistan.

What HRC said in Pakistan is absolutely correct, "I don't believe no one in your government establishment knows where Osama is"

Once Pakistan is balkanized and broken into smaller tinpot countries, it will be easier to destroy the large scale terrorism apparatus.

[Betsy Ross]

6. We must invade Chicago.

It is obviously the new center for terrorism. Time for another war. No war; just investigation and arrest. Now you have a cooperative defendant. Who would have thunk our Justice system might work.