Copies of emails released by the United States Attorney's Office of the Northern District of Illinois in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack trial against Tahawwur Hussain Rana. ...
12:29 PM, May 26, 2011
Chicago: Dissatisfied with the military and espionage training received by Mumbai attacks accused David Headley from the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan's spy agency ISI provided him a special course in Lahore for carrying out surveillance ahead of the 26/11 carnage. "ISI did provide me (espionage) training," Headley told a Chicago court as he was grilled by the defence attorney Charles D Swift on the third day of the trial on Wednesday of...
11:08 AM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: On the third day of the 26/11 trial in Chicago, accused David Headley revealed that LeT handler Sajid Mir instructed the 26/11 attackers on phone, while watching the coverage on television. Headley also said that Mir was upset with the attackers for making mistakes and leaving clues, despite what he thought was a fool-proof plan. As the testimony continues - ISI's hand in the Mumbai attacks is getting...
08:11 AM, May 26, 2011
Chicago: While the Lashkar-e-Taiba leadership made plans for full-proof attacks in Mumbai, the ten men involved in the carnage made a number of mistakes thus leaving crucial clues behind for Indian intelligence agencies, according to court documents. These mistakes were conceded by the LeT mastermind Sajid Mir in multiple conversations with the David Coleman Headley, the Mumbai attacks co-accused, unsealed court documents said on Thursday. "Sajid told Headley that, despite...
07:28 AM, May 26, 2011
Washington: After completing training in LeT camps in Pakistan, Mumbai attacks co-accused David Headley wanted an assignment in Kashmir, according to the federal document unsealed by the court. The document unsealed at the request of the Chicago Tribune showed that he was not given his favourite assignment, as the Lashkar leaders wanted to use him for something else. According to the new documents, it was in February 2002, Headley began...
01:07 AM, May 26, 2011
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11:23 PM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: Watching the 2008 Mumbai carnage live from Pakistan, terror outfit LeT handlers guided the attackers on phone and even asked them to change tactics to challenge the advancing commandos. The strategy followed during the 60-hour siege of Mumbai emerged during the testimony of 26/11 co-accused David Headley in a Chicago District Court on the third day of the trial of his childhood friend and Pakistani-Canadian Tawahhur Rana. Rana has...
11:05 PM, May 25, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's spy agency ISI on Wednesday shrugged off testimony from David Headley, who says he scouted targets for the 2008 Mumbai attacks by Pakistani militants with the help of at least one Pakistani intelligence official. Headley, a Pakistani-American, pleaded guilty last year to being a co-conspirator in the Mumbai attacks, in which 10 militants from the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) killed 166 people, including six Americans. Headley is a...
08:49 PM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: A key plotter of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani American David Coleman Headley, has testified that he was very pleased with the carnage by Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). Testifying as prosecution's star witness in the trial of his one time friend, Pakistan born Canadian Tahawwur Rana, Headley said on Tuesday that he learned about the attacks in Mumbai through a text message telling him to...
03:51 PM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: Apprehending arrest during his India visit after the Mumbai attacks, David Headley wrote a will and emailed it to his friend and co-accused Tahawwur Rana, as to what should be done to his wives and children in the event of his death or arrest. "I am travelling and things are so bad these days, I would like to leave a few instructions with you in case of my death...
12:31 PM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: US federal prosecutors have presented to a Chicago court additional evidences linking strong connection between David Headley, the Mumbai terror accused, and officials of the Pakistan's spy agency ISI. Through records of several emails exhibited in the court federal prosecutors established beyond doubt that Headley was in constant contact with ISI officials, in particular Major Iqbal, and his handlers in Pakistan. In one of the emails to Major Iqbal,...
11:34 AM, May 25, 2011
Mumbai: A day after 26/11 terror accused David Headley described him as an important contact, Shiv Sena member Rajaram Rege on Wednesday said he had a short interaction with the Pakistani-American and he told the NIA everything about him. Though Headley described Rege as Shiv Sena PRO, the party has said it does not have any post like that. On his meeting with Headley, Rege said, "It was a two-second...
10:42 AM, May 25, 2011
Washington: Mumbai attacks co-accused David Headley on Tuesday testified that New Delhi-based National Defence College is on the hit-list of terrorists as 26/11 mastermind Illiyas Kashmiri believes in this way he can kill more Indian brigadiers than what the Pakistan Army could not do in four wars with India. Within a few months of the Mumbai terror attacks, Kashmiri, who has now emerged as mastermind of 26/11, met Headley, and...
10:22 AM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: International pressure in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks led Lashkar-e-Taiba to abandon its plan to attack a Danish newspaper in retaliation to the publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed, David Coleman Headley told a court on Tuesday. Deposing before a federal court in Chicago, Mumbai attacks suspect David Headley, said he was told by one of his handlers in Pakistan, Sajid Mir, during a visit to Lahore...
09:46 AM, May 25, 2011
Talking exclusively to CNN-IBN, former Shiv Sena PRO Rajaram Rege said that when Headley said that he wished to see the Sena Bhavan, Rege refused and asked him to go. ...
09:06 AM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: Day two of the 26/11 case hearing in Chicago saw more startling revelations by the prime witness David Coleman Headley, who revealed that there was a plot to kill Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and that he had met former Shiv Sena PRO Rajaram Rege. Headley also testified that he was in constant touch with Major Iqbal of Pakistan's ISI and Lashkar's Sajid Mir. He said his handlers in...
07:50 AM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: David Headley, the star witness in the US case against the accused planners of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, said on Tuesday that the list of targets changed as the raids grew near, irritating his Pakistani intelligence contact. Headley, who has pleaded guilty to scouting in Mumbai for the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, testified that his handler with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, "Major Iqbal," told him to check out all...
07:09 AM, May 25, 2011
Chicago: Major Iqbal, the alleged ISI handler of David Coleman Headley, wanted to include Mumbai international airport in the list of targets in the 2008 terror attack, a court was told on Tuesday. In fact, Major Iqbal expressed his disappointment when Headley met him in Lahore in June 2008, five months before the attack after coming to know that the airport is not planned to be targetted. This formed part...
11:43 PM, May 24, 2011
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11:14 PM, May 24, 2011
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan trashes Headley's testimony. ...
10:45 PM, May 24, 2011
