Headley chargesheeted in 26/11 terrorist attacks
Washington | Tuesday, Dec 8 2009 IST
 

The US Government has filed chargesheet against suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley for conducting ''extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years'' preceding the 26/11 terrorist attack on the financial capital that killed 172 people, including six Americans.

Headley was arrested in October for planning terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper and two of its employees.

Headley, a US citizen, earlier this decade allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar, and conspired with its members and others in planning and executing the attacks in both Denmark and India, Federal Law Enforcement officials announced yesterday.

Also yesterday, 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 authorised 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 October 3, 2009. No date has been set yet for his arraignment in US District Court in Chicago.

Giving an update of the case, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said, ''The US Department of Justice and the FBI yesterday sent a briefing team that shared with Indian Law Enforcement counterparts information disclosed by Headley relating to his alleged roles in the Mumbai terrorist attacks.'' He said this move reflected US President Barack Obama's commitment to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cooperate closely on the case.

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