Chicago terrorist--not Ayres

[DOGS THAT BARK]

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Chicago Terrorism Suspect Charged In Mumbai Attack

by Dina Temple-Raston

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<!-- END CLASS="TEXTSIZE" -->December 7, 2009
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Chicago man with helping to plan the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, which killed 166 people, including six Americans.
American David Coleman Headley, 49, was arrested in October. At that time, he was accused of planning to attack the offices of the Danish newspaper that had published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. That attack never took place. Headley was also accused of training with a Pakistani terrorist group called Lashkar-e-Taiba. He now faces much more serious charges related to the massacre in India, which was carried out by the group.
Court documents unsealed Monday allege that Headley conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years before the attacks. According to the court papers, Headley's reconnaissance helped the gunmen decide how to come into India undetected.
Lashkar-e-Taiba's leaders allegedly asked Headley to take a number of boat trips around Mumbai's harbor to scout the best landing sites for attackers to come in by sea. The attackers did end up landing in Mumbai by water. Prosecutors also allege that he provided Lashkar-e-Taiba with videotapes and maps, and details on a number of the sites that were attacked ? including the Taj Mahal hotel, the Leopold cafe and a train station.
Headley has been charged with conspiracy to murder and maim in a foreign country, and material support of terrorism. Federal officials say the most serious charges of conspiring to carry out bombings could mean death or life in prison.
Headley, an American citizen, was born in Washington, D.C., to a former Pakistani diplomat and a Philadelphia socialite. His given name was Daood Gilani, but prosecutors say he changed it about three years ago so he could go to India and present himself as an American without attracting attention.
Officials say Headley's role in the Mumbai attacks is an important development in the year-old investigation. Until now, the probe had been marred by disagreements between the Pakistani and Indian governments. The investigation was at somewhat of a standstill. Now that the U.S. is involved, the dynamic has changed. For example, the FBI is helping with the inquiry, focusing on the six Americans who were killed, so it has its own reasons for ensuring that all facets of the plot are uncovered.
In addition, Headley has apparently started cooperating with the FBI and has provided details on the planning of the Mumbai attacks. That would make him an important new source of information about the attacks: an American allegedly on the inside of a terrorist plot. The FBI sent a team to India over the weekend to brief intelligence officials there on what they have learned from Headley so far.
Two other men have been implicated in the case. Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana was arrested with Headley two months ago and accused of providing material support to a terrorist organization. And Pakistani officials have arrested a former military man named Abdur Rehman, who lives in Lahore, Pakistan. He is accused of helping to plan the Danish newspaper and Mumbai plots.
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---can't find anything else on topic -I google 'Chicago terrorist "and keep getting Ayres

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

---can't find anything else on topic -I google 'Chicago terrorist "and keep getting Ayres

DTB is doing stand up now.

You guys need to wake up to what is really going on. Your obsession with Obama is a joke. You act like putting in someone else is going to make a difference.

 

[THE KOD]

yeh it will make a differance.

no differance.

 

[Chadman]

Thankfully, under Obama, this man was captured and will not be a worry for us moving forward. Looks like the only people worried about Ayres and other past issues are the republicans at this point...

But something comes to mind... I thought if we went into Iraq, we'd all be safer and not have to worry about the terrorists being over here? :shrug:

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

DTB is doing stand up now.

You guys need to wake up to what is really going on. Your obsession with Obama is a joke. You act like putting in someone else is going to make a difference.

If he could stay off tv for one day it would be a break--on someone else making a diff--you got to be kidding.

With majority you got these people in charge and can pass anything they want--




Bottom line --Yes you did --your just seeing tip of iceberg on consequences.

I know--you and Pelosi still think 05 was worst economy since great depression and since you took over in 06 its been boom times every since

Watch Gumby find a way to spend the money coming back on TARP instead of paying off debt
-chances him paying off debt bout same as his parents opening up savings account.

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

--on someone else making a diff--you got to be kidding.

No i'm not kidding. Wake up.

 

[THE KOD]

If he could stay off tv for one day it would be a break--on someone else making a diff--you got to be kidding.

..................................................................

Only reason George W wasnt on TV as much is that he was on vacation for 980 days of his 8 yr term, Meaning he wasnt doing jack shit to help anything.

Crawford and Camp David , his two favorite places in the world. :142smilie

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

--I normally tune him out--its the highlights I catch that get me--

example Yesterdays highlight--

"Despite what some have claimed, the cost of the Recovery Act is only a very small part of our current budget imbalance,'' Obama said in his speech at the Brookings Institution. "In reality, the deficit had been building dramatically over the previous eight years. Folks passed tax cuts and expensive entitlement programs without paying for any of it - even as health care costs kept rising, year after year.

"As a result,'' he said, "the deficit had reached $1.3 trillion when we walked into the White House. And I'd note: these budget busting tax cuts and spending programs were approved by many of the same people who are now waxing political about fiscal responsibility while opposing our efforts to reduce deficits by getting health care costs under control.

Where were the rebutals--

Pssst Gumby -you groveling (its not my fault) groid.
Who has quadrupled that deficit in less than a year?--and got the biggies still on the burner--under the pretense of- era of responsiblity/fiscal disipline

in addition--
THE FACTS: Obama's partisan swipe glosses over some of the circumstances before he took office. First, he and his fellow Democrats presided over some of the decision-making that led up to the crisis, because they controlled Congress for two years before Obama became president. Obama's Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner also had a hand, as chief of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under the Bush administration.
Moreover, the $700 bailout fund was initiated under the Bush administration by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. It was endorsed at the time by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and by Geithner. As Illinois senator during the presidential campaign, Obama backed that package.


or -Psst Gumby's what side of fence you on today-

Tuesday- "Even as we have had to spend our way out of this recession in the near term, we have begun to make the hard choices necessary to get our country on a more stable fiscal footing in the long run."

Last week-- "We are under no illusion that somehow the federal government can spend its way out of this recession, but it is absolutely true that any of the ideas that have been mentioned here are still going to require some public dollars and those are actually good investments to make right now,"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ne...k__obama_likes_both_sides_of_an_argument.html

:nooo: