Philadelphia:
While his links to the 26/11 attacks are being investigated, more information is emerging on the background of Lashkar man and American national David Headley, who till his 16th year was known as Daood Gilani and studied in a military school in Pakistan, attended by the country's elite.
The US media is now reporting that Headley is the son of a now deceased Pakistani diplomat Saleem Gilani.
Headley's mother was American Serill Headley, who lived in Pakistan while she was married only to move to Pennsylvania in the 70's once her marriage broke up where she owned and ran a bar.
"I was shocked when I heard this and when I saw the papers it was surreal," says Jeremy Thompson, a bartender at the Khyber Bar.
In 1977, after at least two failed attempts Serrlil Headley got custody of 16-year-old Daood Gilani, who was at the Hasan Abdal Cadet College.
Transported to Philadelphia in his teens after living his life in Pakistan, Daood apparently suffered from culture shock.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, raised a Muslim, he had trouble adjusting to the idea that his mother ran a bar.
"Well, she was the one that ran this place for a long time and really she turned it into the city's first beer bar. She was supposed to be a very free spirit and was well liked," says Thompson.
In 2008, Gilani changed his name to David Headley, accepting his mother's last name, reportedly as a cover for his terror plans.
David Coleman Headley(Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
* Born to Pakistani father, American mother
* Father was a prominent Pakistani diplomat
* Mother Serril ran Khyber Pass, a pub in Philadelphia
* Serril got custody of David in 1977
* Moved to America at the age of 16
* Headley ran a video store in Philadelphia
* 1997: Jailed for 15 months for heroin smuggling
Terror links in Pak military?According to the New York Times, "The case is one of the first criminal cases in which the federal authorities seem to have directly linked terrorism suspects in the US to a former Pakistani military officer, though they have long suspected connections between extremists and many members of the Pakistani military,"
The FBI, which is investigating the case, has not yet confirmed any of these details. The investigating agency has until January to file its indictment against Headley.