David Coleman Headley, who was an American raised and terror trained in Pakistan, was the dream come true for terror outfits. Suspected to be an American double agent, Headley was the major force behind 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Find out what the US knew about the perfect terrorist. ...
05:13 PM, Jan 27, 2013
David Coleman Headley, who was an American raised and terror trained in Pakistan, was the dream come true for terror outfits. Suspected to be an American double agent, Headley was the major force behind 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Find out what the US knew about the perfect terrorist. ...
05:13 PM, Jan 27, 2013
David Coleman Headley, one of the conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was sentenced on Thursday to 35 years in prison. Headley, 52, whose meticulous scouting missions facilitated the assault by 10 gunmen from a Pakistani-based militant group, which killed 160 people - including children. ...
01:05 PM, Jan 25, 2013
After External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India would have given 26/11 convict David Coleman Headley a longer term in jail, Home Secretary RK Singh has now said that Headley should be given death sentence. "We want death sentence for Headley and those who were involved killing of 165 people in Mumbai. We will keep asking for death sentence," RK Singh said. ...
12:30 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Former Indian diplomat KC Singh said that the sentencing of 26/11 convict David Headley may help in yielding more information. "In the Mumbai blast case of 1993, we are still picking up people related to that. There is no time limit to catch a criminal and bring him to justice even if it is after many years. Headley, having got his sentence, might weave another story or might yield more ...
10:12 AM, Jan 25, 2013
A court in Chicago will on Thursday sentence Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Coleman Headley for his role in 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and plot to attack a Danish newspaper. He, however, is likely to avoid life imprisonment. Citing the "significant cooperation" Headley showed in helping the US government in its effort to combat terrorism, US federal prosecutors had sought only 30 to 35 years in prison for him. ...
11:57 AM, Jan 24, 2013
India on Wednesday expressed disappointment over the America's refusal to extradite LeT terrorist David Headley even as it vowed to continue to pursue with its demand for bringing him to New Delhi for his role in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. ...
04:26 AM, Jan 24, 2013
In what is being seen as a setback for India, the United States has ruled out the extradition of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley - who admitted scouting targets for the deadly attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 and later testified against the plotters. The 20-page report submitted by the US government in the court also sought a prison term of 30 to 35 years for Headley. ...
06:55 AM, Jan 23, 2013
A Chicago businessman prosecutors say is a terrorist - who supported the group that staged an attack often called India's 9/11 - faces decades in prison on January 17 if a federal judge rejects defense arguments that he is a compassionate man who was duped by a friend. Tahawwur Rana, 52, is being sentenced for his 2011 convictions of providing support to a Pakistani group that carried out a 2008...
12:53 PM, Jan 17, 2013
US federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum 30-year sentence for Pakistan-born Tahawwur Rana for providing support to Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that staged the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Although Chicago businessman Rana, a boyhood friend of David Coleman Headley, was acquitted of supporting the Mumbai attacks, he was convicted of supporting LeT and its aborted plot to attack Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten for publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. ...
11:08 AM, Jan 15, 2013
For most of his childhood, Rahul Bhatt did not know a father's unconditional love - a vacuum that the advent of David Coleman Headley filled for a while. David Headley: the dashing, intriguing Pakistani with one brown eye and a green one, a man who could pass himself off as American quite easily, a charmer of men and women alike. Headley inveigled his way into Rahul's simple world and, in...
04:35 PM, Jan 14, 2013
New Delhi: India has asked the US to provide statements of 13 people associated with Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley and his accomplice in Mumbai terror attack case Tahawwur Hussain Rana as they could be potential witnesses. Highly placed government sources said during the third Indo-US strategic dialogue held in Washington last week, India actively pursued the issues related to the 26/11 attack, involvement of Headley and Rana in it and...
07:21 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Washington: India on Wednesday requested the US to provide it access to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks accused David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, visiting External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said. "India's interest in further access to Headley and Rana, in accordance with our legal procedures, for the investigations into the Mumbai terror attack of November 2008, was raised," Krishna told reporters at a joint news conference with US...
08:12 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Washington: The estranged wife of admitted Pakistani American terrorist David Coleman Headley claims she tried to prevent the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack by going to US authorities abroad, but they did not bother. "So I went to them and I then started saying stuff, I said he's going to bomb everything, he's a criminal. They didn't bother," Faiza Outalha was quoted as saying by Chicago's WLS-TV/DT. Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Headley,...
10:59 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear facility in Mumbai and also most vulnerable to a possible terror attack was on top of the list of sensitive buildings surveyed and video-taped by 26/11 terror attacks planner David Coleman Headley. Headley surveyed the BARC complex for a possible terror strike. Intelligence agencies have now reported, despite stepped-up security after the Mumbai terror attacks, at least 25 intrusions have...
06:36 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court adjourned till February 4, the hearing of arguments taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed by National Investigative Agency (NIA) against American Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative David Headley and 8 others including JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi on Saturday. The NIA said that Headley's wife Faiza also had a role to play, which has been detailed in the chargesheet. "Arguments on the question...
12:19 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday told a Delhi court that it did not recognise the plea bargain reached between David Coleman Headley and the US administration and that India should start the process to extradite the American Lashkar operative as soon as possible. "We don't recognise David Headley's plea bargain with the US... India should start the process to extradite the American Laskhkar operative." Last month, the NIA had...
12:00 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley and eight others including two ISI officials, in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack case. The chargesheet has been filed in a special NIA court in Delhi. The Patiala House court is likely to pronounce its order on whether to accept the chargesheet (cognizance) on January 7, 2012. The Government on...
01:20 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Counter terror agencies say US had enough intelligence about a developing terror plot with Mumbai as the target. ...
08:27 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: Just two days before the third anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008, an investigative report by the ProPublica website raises more questions about the USA's relationship with Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley. The report is an embarrassment for the USA as the ProPublic report claims that the US sat on information that could have led to Headley's arrest and prevented the Mumbai attacks. According...
01:20 PM, Nov 23, 2011
