Tag: Daood Jilani
By Jeralyn, Section Terror Trials
Posted on Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 08:09:00 AM EST
Tags: David Headley, Daood Jilani, Mumbai Attacks (all tags)
Posted on Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 08:09:00 AM EST
Tags: David Headley, Daood Jilani, Mumbai Attacks (all tags)
The Chicago Tribune reports that terror suspect David Headley, aka Daood Gilani, is cooperating with authorities and providing information about the Mumbai terror attacks of November, 2008.
David Coleman Headley, who has been cooperating with authorities, is being investigated as a scout for the Mumbai attack, which targeted multiple sites, including two hotels, a train station, a cafe and a Jewish community center. A source familiar with the probe said Headley's co-defendant in the newspaper case, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, is suspected to have paid for Headley's India missions.As I wrote here, it wouldn't be the first time Headley has cooperated. Under his original name, Daood Gilani, he worked his way out of a 1997 heroin case by providing information to the DEA. He ended up with a 15 month sentence (his co-defendant James Lewis got 100 months.) After Headley/Gilani was released from prison, and while he was on supervised release, the court granted him permission to travel to Pakistan. The Government then joined his request to terminate his supervised release three years early. [More...]
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