FBI: Terror plot suspects had ties to Pakistan

[maddezmom]

Source: AP


CHICAGO — Two Chicago men accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper may have been involved in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities in that country say.

The FBI for now is saying only that it has evidence David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were in contact with the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba — which the Indian government blames for the Mumbai attacks that left 166 dead and 308 wounded.

Headley, 49, and Rana, 48, were arrested last month. They are accused of plotting to kill one of the editors and a cartoonist at Danish paper Jyllands-Posten for publishing 12 cartoons in 2005 depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which ignited outrage in much of the Muslim world. The FBI claims Rana helped arrange Headley's travel.

The FBI says Headley was in contact with Lashkar-e-Taiba while he allegedly planned and carried out reconnaissance this year near the newspaper offices in Copenhagen.



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previous DU thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4151082

[cosmicone]

1. All non-palestine terrorists are from Pakistan ..

actively funded, trained and armed by Pakistani government.

No news here.