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Intelligence and law enforcement officials insist that while the HIG has not been finalized, intelligence units are deploying to interrogate suspects - including Abdulmutallab and David Headley, who was arrested in Chicago last year and has been linked to the Bombay massacre of 2008. At a hearing before the Senate's Select Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that HIG-like teams had been deployed since the fall, and CIA Director Leon Panetta said agency interrogators have accompanied them. This raised more questions whether the unit was functional. "It's moving along," was all Blair said. When committee...
...October, Chicago businessman David Coleman Headley was arrested for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper that had published controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. (Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian resident of Chicago was also arrested in connection with the same plot.) Headley was later additionally charged with abetting the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 2008. (Read "The Chicago Suspect: Are Pakistani Jihadis Going Global...
...citizen raised in Pakistan was arrested in Chicago and charged with aiding the terrorists who killed more than 165 people in a November 2008 assault on Mumbai. David Headley, who has pleaded not guilty, allegedly surveilled potential targets for the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Meanwhile, on Dec. 9, five U.S. citizens of Pakistani and Middle Eastern descent were arrested on terrorism charges in a raid in Sargodha, Pakistan. U.S. officials tell TIME the men are from the Washington area and that one of them left a farewell video stating that Muslims "must be defended...
...That description, in fact, fits all the Americans who have been accused of terrorism-related activities since Zazi's arrest. Nidal Malik Hasan, charged with killing 13 of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas, is a psychiatrist and Army major. David Coleman Headley, who allegedly plotted to bomb a Danish newspaper and has been implicated in the Mumbai attacks, is a Chicago businessman. And the five young Virginia men who were detained in Pakistan last week have only their youth in common with Zazi: two are sons of businessmen, and the group's supposed leader, Ramy Zamzam...
When the LeT seemed too focused on a new attack in India, the official complaint says, Headley shifted his allegiance to another jihadi group willing to support him. "He was incorporated into LeT but not indoctrinated into the cause," John says. "David Headley had a mind of his own." In the end, it was that single-mindedness - his vehement Internet postings about the cartoons and his frequent trips to Denmark without any apparent business interests there - that tipped off investigators to begin watching him. He was arrested in October shortly before another planned trip to Denmark. Headley is now reportedly...