David Headley

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David Coleman Headley (* the 30th June 1960 in Washington, DC as Daood Sayed Gilani ), the a Pakistani Americans with the terrorist group Lashkar e-Taiba , the attacks on November 26, 2008 in Mumbai committed. On January 24, 2013, a US federal court sentenced Headley to 35 years in prison.

Life

Headley's father, Sayed Salim Gilani, was a diplomat at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, where Headley's mother worked as a secretary. Alice Serrill Headley (1939-2008) was from Maryland ; her father L. Coleman Headley was a retired University of Maryland football star . After Daood Sayed was born, the family moved to Lahore ; the parents' marriage broke up. Serrill Headley left his husband and son in Pakistan and married four more times.

When the Pakistani government was overthrown in 1977, Serrill Headley traveled to Pakistan and took Daood, who had since attended Cadet College Hasan Abdal , with him back to the United States; she owned a bar in Philadelphia.

In 1985, Daood Gilani married a Pennsylvania State University student ; the marriage was divorced in 1987.

In the late 1980s, Daood Gilani opened two video rental stores in New York City . He was first arrested in 1987 for drug offenses and obtained a mild sentence through working with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In 1997 he was arrested for smuggling heroin from Pakistan into the United States.

Between 2002 and 2005, Headley made several trips to Pakistan, where he completed terror training camps while at the same time worked as an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration .

In 2006 he changed his name to David Headley and moved with his family to Chicago.

Facade of Nariman House a week after the attacks

Between 2006 and 2008, Headley explored targets for the planned terrorist attacks in five espionage missions in Mumbai , in which 168 people ultimately died. In 2009, Headley traveled to Denmark to plan an attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten , which published the controversial Mohammed cartoons . In October 2009, Headley was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport while attempting to make his way back to Pakistan.

The Indian Secretary of State for the Interior Gopal Krishna Pillai also brought Headley in connection with the 2010 assassination attempt on the German Bakery restaurant in Pune .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Did not attend funeral of Headley's father: Gilani" , Economic Times
  2. ↑ a b Full transcript of David Headley's uncle's interview . Ndtv.com. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  3. ↑ Headley's ex-wife told reporters, "when he would go to Pakistan he would get all riled up again" and use words like "infidels" and "when he would see an Indian person in the street, he used to spit, spit in the street ". Joseph Tanfani, John Shiffman, and Kathleen Brady Shea: Who was David Headley? What he involved in the Mumbai shootings? , McClatchy Newspapers. December 14, 2009. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 15, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mcclatchydc.com 
  4. ^ Ginger Thompson: A Terror Suspect With Feet in East and West . In: The New York Times , November 22, 2009. 
  5. ^ DEA Deployed Mumbai Plotter Despite Warning . In: The New York Times , November 7, 2010. 
  6. ^ A b Ginger Thompson: An Accused Plotter With Feet in East and West , The New York Times. November 21, 2009. 
  7. ↑ a b Sebastian Rotella: Scout in Mumbai attacks was DEA informant while in terror camp, authorities say . In: The Washington Post , October 17, 2010. "" US authorities took seriously what Headley's former wives said, "a senior administration official said. "Their information was of a general nature and did not suggest any particular terrorist plot." But Headley's wife's considerable knowledge of Lashkar should have reinforced her credibility, because the Pakistani extremist group is not well known to the average American. " 
  8. ↑ Sam Wood: From Pakistan to Phila .: A terror suspect's journey . In: Philadelphia Inquirer . Philly.com. November 19, 2009. Archived from the original on November 21, 2009. Retrieved on March 18, 2010.
  9. ↑ Pakistan's Terror Connections - Mumbai Case Offers Rare Picture of Ties Between Pakistan's Intelligence Service, Militants
  10. ^ Emily Wax and Greg Miller, Indian report accuses Pakistan's intelligence service of significant role in Mumbai siege , The Washington Post. October 21, 2010. 
  11. ^ Eight die in India's first big attack since Mumbai , Thomson Reuters . February 13, 2010, S. Bhowmik. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. 
  12. ↑ Eight killed, 33 injured in Pune terror attack . Retrieved February 13, 2010. 
personal data
SURNAME Headley, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Headley, David Coleman (full name); Gilani, Daood Sayed (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani-American terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC