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Headley was born Daood Gilani in Washington, D.C. His father was Pakistani; his mother, American. The Chicago resident's alleged involvement with the radical Pakistani Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) began nearly three years before the Mumbai attacks. In late 2005 he was told by his handlers to travel to India to do surveillance, so he changed his name in February 2006 to David Headley "in order to present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani," according to the complaint filed in U.S. district court in Chicago. He allegedly made the first of several...
...prepared by Indian authorities. Sabahuddin Ahmed, the other co-accused, was a Bangalore-based operative for LeT, according to his statement to police, but he allegedly spent the fall of 2006 scouting targets in Bangalore - not Mumbai - and meeting other LeT operatives in Dhaka, Kathmandu, Colombo and Muzaffarabad in Pakistani Kashmir to discuss them. (See pictures of Mumbai one year after the attack...
During those same months, Qasab was allegedly attending a jihadi camp in Pakistani Kashmir, progressing from indoctrination and physical-fitness training to the handling of grenades and machine guns. It wasn't until September that Qasab was "selected for some confidential operations," according to his statement to Indian authorities. According to the same document, he and the others started a new round of training in swimming and navigation for an operation at sea, and on Sept. 15 they learned that their target was Mumbai. The 10 gunmen who arrived in Mumbai on Nov. 26 would land at the jetty...
...Schweit was not at liberty to discuss the matter because it is under investigation. "We are working with Pakistan authorities to determine their identities and the nature of their business there," she said in a statement. In Islamabad, a spokesman said the U.S. embassy was still awaiting details from Pakistani authorities. (See pictures of Pakistani subcultures...
...Pakistani officials say that following a tip-off by the FBI, they began tracking the five men as soon as they landed in Karachi in late November. They then allegedly traveled to the city of Hyderabad and finally to Sargodha, 120 miles south of Islamabad. "We wanted to see who they were meeting, whether it was Taliban or Lashkar or Jaish," says an official who asked not to be named. (Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad are among several terrorist groups active in Punjab province...