By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com David Coleman Headley, a lead planner of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, who looked Western and had a U.S. passport, is the focus of a special on Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS’s Frontline called “A Perfect Terrorist.” The son of a Pakistani father and an American mother, Headley was chosen…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Three weeks after Osama bin Laden was killed, and Americans accused Pakistan of knowing of his whereabouts, damaging evidence against Pakistan’s intelligence agency has surfaced. The New York Times reports that the government’s leading witness in a federal trial in downtown Chicago involving the Mumbai, India attacks in 2008 implicated the…
By GINGER THOMPSON, ERIC SCHMITT and SOUAD MEKHENNET New York Times WASHINGTON — American authorities sent David C. Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them in Pakistan months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite a warning that he sympathized with radical Islamic groups, according to court records and interviews….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Has the case of David Headley, the 49-year-old Chicago man accused of helping plot the 2008 Mumbai, India attacks, pointed out the holes in the United State’s intelligence gathering? The New York Times reports that Headley “moved effortlessly between the United States, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years, training at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has agreed not to seek the death penalty for a Chicago man as part of his guilty plea in connection with the the Mumbai, India attacks in 2008, the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office said. David Coleman Headley, 49, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, pleaded guilty Thursday in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David Coleman Headley, charged in Chicago with playing a role in the 2008 Mumbai, India bombings that killed about 170 people, is expected to plead guilty Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Tribune reported that he has been cooperating since his arrest in October. His attorney would not comment to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, regarded as the gold standard for U.S. Attorneys, plans to personally prosecute two men accused of being part of the 2008 bombings in Mumbai, India that killed 170 people, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The paper reported that Fitzgerald has personally prosecuted only one case in Chicago…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller III was in Chicago on Wednesday where he was briefed on a terror case involving the 2008 deadly attacks in Mumbai, the Chicago Tribune reported. Mueller reportedly was told details of the case involving David Coleman Headley, who is charged with plotting to attack a…
