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Suspect also sought to behead publisher. Chicago Muslim charged in Mumbai Massacre



A Chicago Muslim has been charged with planning and executing terrorist attacks in India and Denmark, U.S. officials said.

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David Coleman Headley, 49, a native of Chicago and convert to Islam, allegedly attended Lashkar-e-Toiba-operated terrorism training camps in Pakistan and helped Lashker-e-Toiba members and others plan and execute the attacks in Denmark against the newspaper which published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, which Muslims found offensive, as well as the violent attack in Mumbai, in which about 170 people died. Headley is cooperating in the investigation of both the Danish and Indian terror plots, officials said. Headley, 49, has been charged in a 12-count indictment with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and maim persons in India and Denmark, to provide material support to foreign terrorist plots and material support to Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan, and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India. The Denmark-related charges contend that Headley conspired with Ilyas Kashmiri and other Islamic terrorists to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against the facilities of the Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, its editor and cartoonist for publishing the cartoon in 2005. Headley reportedly traveled from Chicago to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a reconnaissance mission, met with co-conspirators to discuss his surveillance and plan the attacks, the indictment said. He was arrested Oct. 3 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, intending to travel to Pakistan to deliver the approximately 13 surveillance videos to co-conspirators.


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