Two charged over cartoon terrorism plot

US authorities have charged two men arrested in Chicago with plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.

The suspects were identified as David Coleman Headley, 49, a US citizen who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, a Canadian citizen born in Pakistan.

Headley was arrested by the FBI on October 3 at Chicago O'Hare Airport before boarding a flight to Pakistan via Philadelphia, the authorities said. Rana was detained on October 18 at his Chicago home.

Headley conducted two surveillance trips to Denmark in January and July 2009, touring the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen and Arhus, a statement from the Justice Department said.

"Headley falsely told Jyllands-Posten employees that he was visiting on behalf of First World Immigration Services, which he said was considering opening offices in Denmark and might be interested in advertising the business in the newspaper," it said.

Rana, charged with being Headley's accomplice, owns several businesses, including First World Immigration Services, which has offices in Chicago, New York and Toronto.

The US authorities also said Headley had travelled to Pakistan to meet with co-conspirators about the planned attack, which was codenamed the Mickey Mouse Project and the Northern Project.

The Justice Department says it was in Pakistan that he met Individual A, who was linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based radical Islamic group that has long fought Indian rule in divided Kashmir.

The pair then travelled together to Pakistan's tribal areas and met another unnamed militant associated with the Lashkar-e-Taiba group.

A third alleged conspirator in Pakistan was Ilyas Kashmiri, identified as the operational chief of a Pakistani-based terrorist organisation with links to Al Qaeda.

Rana is accused of helping to arrange Headley's travel plans and conceal their true nature as well as discussing potential targets with him, the charge sheet said.

The head of Danish intelligence service, Jakob Scharff, issued a statement saying Copenhagen was taking the matter "very seriously" as Headley had extensive contacts with leading militant extremists in Pakistan.

"We don't think that an attack has been immediate but there has been very specific planning in order to carry out serious terrorist attacks in Denmark," he said.

Headley was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the US, and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to that plot.

Rana was charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support for the planned attack, the Justice Department statement said.

If convicted, Headley faces life in prison, while Rana faces up to 15 years behind bars.

Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's highest circulating daily, triggered an outrage in the Muslim world by publishing 12 cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in 2005. Many Danish newspapers reprinted the drawings in 2008.

Demonstrators burned Danish flags in protests that culminated in February 2006 with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Damascus and Beirut and dozens of deaths in Nigeria, Libya and Pakistan.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/28/2725902.htm

Feds: Chicago men discussed terror attack in India
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 11:54 AM EST Updated: Nov 03, 2009 11:07 PM EST
By MIKE ROBINSON
AP Legal Affairs Writer

CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a member of a Pakistan-based terrorist group on how to slip people into the U.S., prosecutors said Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors said in court papers that Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana in September talked with another man charged in the case about designating the National Defense College of India as among possible targets they might pursue.

"Recorded conversations involving the defendant, emails and other documentary evidence demonstrate that the defendant conspired to provide and did provide material support to the conspiracy," prosecutors said in court papers.

Rana, 48, and another man, David Headley, 49, are charged with conspiring to attack the Copenhagen newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which sparked outrage in much of the Muslim world in 2005 by publishing 12 cartoonsof the Prophet Muhammad.

The court papers were filed as Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan met with attorneys to discuss the possible release of Rana on bond.

Prosecutors offered the new allegations to reinforce their argument that Rana should remain in the Metropolitan Correctional Center and not be released. Headley is scheduled to have a bond hearing later.

Defense attorney Patrick Blegen disputes government claims that Rana is a danger to the community and a flight risk. He said friends and relatives in Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Texas will post their homes to secure a bond.

With supporters in Canada also willing to post cash, Rana could post a bond of $1 million to guarantee that he would not flee to avoid prosecution, Blegen said.

Blegen told reporters after meeting with Nolan that Rana, if asked about the new allegations against him, would deny them.

Nolan did not rule on the bond and scheduled another hearing on the request for next Tuesday.

In a complaint unsealed last week, prosecutors quoted Rana and Headley as discussing an unspecified "defense college" as a potential terrorist target.

The court papers filed Tuesday said that on a long automobile drive in September, Rana and Headley "discussed Denmark and other targets, including the National Defense College in India - Rana in fact used the English word target."

There was no detail in the court papers on whether anything substantial had been done in regard to the school in India or whether it was merely talk. Prosecutors have said there were five such potential terrorist projects.

Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office, declined to elaborate on the allegation.

The court papers also said that in late 2008 Rana, who operates a Chicago immigration law service, had a discussion with a someone affiliated with the group Lashkar-e-Taiba who was identified only as Individual B. The Pakistan-based organization has been declared a terrorist group by the U.S. government, and India claims it was responsible for the commando-style assault that killed 166 people in Mumbai last November.

The discussion, conducted by e-mail, included a warning from Rana not to use student visas to get people into the country. He said a school "reports to immigration on a hot line that students are missing and immigration at 5 a.m. is at their place of residence or work, wherever they can pick them up."

"Then they offer them a deal and ask them to tell how they came. ... How they paid, what amount whom, who did what," the e-mail said, allegedly quoting Rana.

"Only one loophole is business which they believe is OK," it said. The e-mail and court papers did not elaborate. Rana asked Individual B to delete the e-mail from his computer, according to the court papers.

Prosecutors also said in the court papers that when another, unnamed individual suggested to Rana that he might back-date a document to 1983 to help someone get a visa Rana warned him that he would have to use a typewriter because there were no laser printers in 1983.


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hollywood script made by USA and Israpigs.

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