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India is sending a team of intelligence officials to question the
American who was allegedly planning Mumbai-like terror attacks in
cities across India.
David Coleman Headley was arrested by the
FBI in Chicago on October 3, for planning attacks against India and
Denmark. Indian intelligence officials want exclusive access to him in
America, instead of joint questioning with the FBI.
Sources
reveal that the Indian Government has been informed that Headley's plot
was bigger what the FBI has revealed so far. India is also worried by
information that Headley's handler was Pakistan-based terrorist Ilyas
Kashmiri.
The FBI says that Headley, an American citizen, was
allegedly working with top Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives, based in
Pakistan. Born American, he lived and attended school in Pakistan under
the name Dawood Gilani.
The agency also claims that Headley mentioned a prominent Indian actor identified only as 'Rahul' as the main target. Indian authorities say they have no clue who this Rahul could be.
Headley
and a Pakistani-Canadian, Tahawwur Hussain Rana , were planning to
attack the offices of the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of
Prophet Mohammed ; also on their target list, cities in India.
The
FBI affidavit says Headley visited India to plan the attack on behalf
of the LeT. He was also in close contact over email with Ilyas Kashmiri
and several unidentified leaders of LeT, two of whom are identified as
"LeT member A" and "LeT member B." |