The Curious Case of Daood Gilani alias David Headley & co

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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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dawn.

DHAKA: Bangladeshi police said Friday they have arrested three Pakistani men who were suspected of plotting to attack US and Indian targets in the capital Dhaka.

Police spokesman Shyamol Kumar Mukharjee told AFP the men were believed to be members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group blamed for last year's attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai.

'The latest arrests in Dhaka follow those last week of three other (Bangladeshi) men in the southeastern city of Chittagong who were planning to attack US targets,' he said.

A senior police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities believed the men arrested in Dhaka were planning attacks on US and Indian interests in the Bangladeshi capital.

Police said they made the Chittagong arrests based on information from two men detained last month in Chicago.

US authorities have charged those suspects, David Coleman Headley and Pakistan-born Tahawwur Hussain Rana, with plotting attacks, including on a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.

Headley, 49, a US citizen who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, was arrested by the FBI on October 3 at Chicago's O'Hare airport before boarding a flight to Philadelphia en route to Pakistan.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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kenop wrote:
Me taking with a pinch of salt. After every "breakthrough" all previous paapis and paaps are connected. A lot like after-thought and extra eagerness to crack the case.
You may be right. Another such finding:

Dhaka link to Lashkar plot
The Headley plot has thickened further. Reports have emerged from Bangladesh that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commanders in Pakistan were to carry out the actual assault on the National Defence College, target boarding schools and the Indian Embassy in Dhaka. The physical execution of the attack was assigned to Lahore-based Sheikh Abdul Rehman Saeed, the long-standing commander of the LeT networks in Bangladesh. Proof of this came from the confession of three LeT operatives arrested in Dhaka.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested three LeT operatives on charges of plotting to bomb the High Commission of India in Dhaka. The three men, Mufti Harun Izhar, Shahidul Islam and Saiful Amin were held in Chittagong, after India’s intelligence services intercepted phone conversations linking them to LeT commanders in Pakistan. They planned to bomb the Indian High Commission in Dhaka. During interrogation, the LeT trio revealed their Pakistan links and their plans to target Indian institutions. LeT commanders in Bangladesh have long used the country as a platform for attacks against India. Mid-level operatives often transited through the country.
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Investigators zero in on US-based LeT man's mysterious 'Rahul'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 225774.cms
Mahesh Bhatt, Pooja get Pope's invite to Vatican
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news ... 079058.cms
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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Sorry if OT

Breaking news.'Rahul" friend of David Headley is son of nationalist patriot Mahesh Bhatt.
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Is Headley the missing link in 26/11 conspiracy?
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: With David Coleman Headley's travel itinerary and the persons he met up with during his nine visits to India becoming increasingly clear, investigators believe that the Pakistan-born American, now in US custody, could have played a role in planning the Mumbai terror attacks.
BTW is Headley aka Gilani a Gora American or a Paki American?
"How would you think that a white American had anything to do with terror," Mahesh Bhatt told reporters when asked about his son was questioned.
And in the meanwhile

'No clean chit to Rahul Bhatt yet'
"No one has been given clean chit," a top government source said when asked about reports from Mumbai that Rahul Bhatt has been cleared by the investigators of any wrong doing following reports that he had met Headley on some occasions.
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He is a TFTA Paki being mistaken for gora with his name change. there ae many report of his accomplice Rana and a TSP diplomat being old time class mates in some military prep school in TSP.
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Tamang wrote:Is Headley the missing link in 26/11 conspiracy?
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: With David Coleman Headley's travel itinerary and the persons he met up with during his nine visits to India becoming increasingly clear, investigators believe that the Pakistan-born American, now in US custody, could have played a role in planning the Mumbai terror attacks.
BTW is Headley aka Gilani a Gora American or a Paki American?
"How would you think that a white American had anything to do with terror," Mahesh Bhatt told reporters when asked about his son was questioned.
Seems to be a mongrel with a gora mother and paki father.
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Re: Internal Security Watch

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Retracing the steps of David Headley

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Lashkar operative David Headley's Mumbai and Delhi links emerged at a fast pace on Friday.

A copy of Headley's passport has been found in Delhi and it is now confirmed that the mysterious Rahul named in mails between Headley and his Lashkar handlers is none other than Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul Bhatt. Rahul, a fitness instructor, says he met Headley, a "fitness freak" at a gym in Mumbai. (Read and Watch: How Rahul Bhatt met David Headley)

Rahul denies that he helped Headley look for a flat in the city, but a property dealer Sunny Singh says Headley approached him a month and a half ago to look for a flat to rent in Bandra. The deal, he says, fell through because he refused to give his visa documents and other papers. (Read and Watch: Headley wanted to rent flat in Mumbai: Sunny Singh)

Headley and his associate, Tahawwur Rana, were arrested in Chicago by the FBI last month in connection with terror strikes planned in Denmark and in India and for links with the Lashkar e Taiba. Headley visited India nine times between 2006 and 2009, once after 26/11 and the investigative teams are conducting inquiries in the cities he went to. (Read: Headley's travel and stay in India)

Quick points:
Headley's duration of stay is about 12 months
Rana was here once before the 26/11
No clean chit to Rahul Bhatt yet
All previous terror strikes being re-examined
Headley and Rana never figured in the intelligence net in any connection till now
Initial investigations indicate multiple city multiple strike (Sources)

A distinct 26/11 trail is also emerging. David Headley apparently stayed at the Trident, one of the hotels attacked during the 26/11Mumbai attacks, and booked a room at the Taj.

Tahawwur Rana too visited Mumbai once and left the city just five days before the 26/11 attacks. India will now ask for the extradition of both Headley and Rana.

In the capital a team of the Delhi Police Special Cell has visited both the hotels Headley stayed in and have questioned hotel managers and owners. Police found a photocopy of Headley's passport in a Paharganj hotel, Anand Hotel, where he stayed in March 2009 in Room no 40. Before that he stayed for a day at the Holiday Inn Hotel's Room no 205.

Headley's passport was issued from Washington, has an India visa stamp on it and describes the terror suspect as David C Headley, citizen of the United States. Headley had submitted his passport to the hotel while checking in.

While in Delhi, Headley traveled by auto and cycle rickshaws. No one ever saw him going by a car. Neither was anyone ever seen coming to either pick him up or drop him. {Intelligence training? Leaves no trail of his wanderings?}

The FBI had revealed in its chargesheet that Delhi's National Defence College was the target of the Lashkar-e-Toiba-Headley terror plot.

Fresh evidence available with NDTV shows that Rana had a much bigger role to play than David Headley in the terror plot against India, which was uncovered by the FBI last month. It now appears that Rana not only instigated Headley but also directed his operations. (Read: Headley took orders from Rana)

In Headley's email exchanges with unidentified Lashkar commanders about a Mickey Mouse Project, he says: "Rana is trying to prepare me. If this happens you should act like this and if that happens you should do that and fear nothing except God.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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ramana wrote:Where did Rahul Bhatt go to school? I hope its not either of those two on the target list.


Daoud Gilani was the coordinator of those terrorists attacks.
Isn't it odd how Sanjay Dutt ended up spending two years in TADA jail for storing some AK-56s belonging to the Abu Salem gang... but this piglet Rahul Bhatt is given a clean chit (within 24 hrs!) for his alleged role in aiding and abetting the terrorists behind 11/26?

Maybe Dutt's contention that his TADA imprisonment was only a way for Sharad Pawar to humiliate his father, MP Sunil Dutt, is true after all. No one gives a $hit about national security, and the judicial system is only a tool for the robber-barons to intimidate their rivals.

Even so... giving Rahul Bhatt a "clean chit" is patently outrageous. At the very least Headley needs to be interrogated by RAW before any conclusion can be drawn about Rahul Bhatt's involvement. But now that he's been let off, watch for him to hop a flight to Dubai and ports beyond, where he will stay until his father's patrons in the GOI can guarantee that Headley will never be extradited.

All this actually makes me wonder why the two RAW guys came home from Chicago without interviewing Headley themselves. Was it the FBI who denied them access to the terrorist? Or were they ordered to come back?
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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Guys and Gals,

I think I know why the FBI affidavit against the two TSP jihadi pigs is reluctant to name the TSP LeT contacts. It turns out that the Candian/TSPian guy Tahawwur Hussain Rana is the kingpin and Headley a.k.a Daood Gilani may be a foot solider.

FBI called the two TSPian pig leaders as "LeT member A" and "Individual A", clearly trying to cover up their identities.

Why?

It turns out that Tahawwur-e-pig was in touch with two of his brothers, both of whom are TSPA Brigadiers!
Rana had sent an email to Headley on March 4, 2009 wherein he disclosed names of his two brothers, Brigadier Mohawat Hussain Rana and Sibte Hassan Rana.
Unkil may have direct evidence tying serving TSPA Brigadiers to Mumbai and in the act of planning new attacks.

Don't wait for any action though... :roll:
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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ramana wrote:BTW Rahul Bhatt himself contacted the police otherwise no one would know he is that Rahul. So lets see how things turn out. For all he we know he was a patsy and didnt know who DH/DG was.
May be that is true, but that does not explain why his name figures so prominently in US docs...if he is just a casual friend or acquaintance.

I think it is a matter of time before some evidence emerges clearly and concretely, either in this case or some other, that the sections of the p-sec brigade, that have converted secretly or openly to other religions because of marriage, have joined in the Marxist controlled anti-Hindu pogrom because it suits their own political / religious propaganda activities. The camouflage it as secularism. Ordinary Muslims or Christians, 99.99% of them, have no interest in this pogrom that relies on innuendos, character assassinations and spreading lies and painting everyone with a broad black tar brush and occasional murders when it suits them. But some jehadi extremists and/or evangelists that hope to fish for souls in this process do have a clear interest.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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So please dont imply that Indian police is bandwagonning on this matter. Thats not fair tot he overworked and under appreciated force.
I am taking this OT stuff a bit further: My frustration is about the system and not specifically related to the investigators. I do not have the time to do this but I feel that if I track the developments of investigations carefully, there will be many u-turns. If earlier reports were factual, what are these? Somebody would have jumped the gun (now? earlier?).
As an aside, each phone call involves two people, so how does one get to hear about this joker DH only when he is in the net? I would like to believe that he was on the radar of the Indian investigators too.
I stop here on the matter of investigators. I just want to see them do a thorough job and come on top.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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I think a lot of lack of sympathy towards police not just in BRF but elsewhere as well, comes from the fact that it is true and known that the force is overstretched, overworked, underpaid and does a great but thankless job in areas like VIP security, protecting festivals and public gatherings, election duty, anti-naxal, anti-terrorist areas and takes a lots of casualties in the process...and throws up lots of great heroes..

But 99% of the ordinary Indians that interact with them on a daily basis out of necessity are under the impression, and correctly so, that this is a force that protects the criminal and punishes the victim. If you go to a police station to register a complaint, either it never gets registered or they ask money to investigate. It happened to me, recently when my wife went to register a petty theft complaint. The bribe demanded was much more than what we lost..we had to pay because otherwise they may book us in a false case.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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Rangudu wrote:
Why?

It turns out that Tahawwur-e-pig was in touch with two of his brothers, both of whom are TSPA Brigadiers!
This raises the pertinent question - does the Pakistan Army work hand in hand with its terror factories?
What sh1t is this? Does night follow day?
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 227983.cms
Agencies are looking at exact details of Rana having been in Mumbai in November last year just ahead of the 26/11 attacks on the city. He is the bigger fish in the FBI net and though he visited India just once, using his own name, he moved about freely in the north, south and west. Investigators are scrambling to trace his and Headley's travels.
Rana's travel records, being pieced from immigration data and through an online travel agency Expedia, also indicate that he might have been in Mumbai for "quite a while" with Headley. It was Rana who was financing his associate's multiple trips to India, Pakistan, Denmark and other countries like UAE and was also to play guardian for Headley's family in case the latter died in a jihadist operation.
Though Headley was being funded by Rana who ran a company -- World Immigration Service with offices in Chicago, New York and Toranto -- as a front for the terror operation, sleuths here believe he himself might have been funded by an entity in Pakistan. Rana's communication to his Pakistani handlers clearly point out in this direction.

NIA, which has been scanning these details as well as records of Expedia, will find the exercise a lot more easier with the recent notification of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008.
NIA, which has been liaising with state police forces for details on Headley-Rana trail, is learnt to have got hold of a number of call details connecting them. While Headley spent nearly a year in all during his multiple visits to India, Rana is learnt to have spent three to four months in one go, traveling the length and width of India -- possibly to meet local contacts and prepare them for future "multi-targets in multi-cities" terror projects.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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SSridhar Should we track the Daoud Gilani/David Headley case in a separate thread as it is getting curiouser?
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Ramana, I think yes.
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I'm reliably told from two different sources that the unnamed individual in the FBI indictment is a serving ISI officer.

It is not clear if the ISI terrorist is the same as one of Tahawwur Hussain Rana's brothers - Mowadat Hussain Rana or Sibte Hasan Rana, both of whom are TSPA Brigadiers

Googling reveals that Mowadat Hussain Rana is a serving Brigadier and an army doctor, BTW.
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OK, I have merged all related posts from the TSP thread. Fire away.
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Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - November 06, 2009

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India to tell Pak to extradite Headley handlers
India will seek the extradition of Pakistani handlers of terror suspect David Coleman Headley — Sajid Mir and Sheikh Abdul Saeed.
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Headley stayed in Mumbai Taj twice in 2007
American terror suspect David Headley stayed at the Taj hotel here twice before the Mumbai carnage while his associate Hussain Rana was in this metropolis till five days before the attack, fuelling suspicion of their link to 26/11.
Headley stayed in two Delhi hotels
. . . had stayed for three days at two hotels in Paharganj in Central Delhi this March. “He first checked in at De Holiday around 4.45 p.m. on March 7 and stayed in Room No. 205. He checked out the next morning and took Room No. 40 in Hotel Anand where he stayed till March 9 evening,” said an officer.
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I'm reliably told from two different sources that the unnamed individual in the FBI indictment is a serving ISI officer.
R-sir,
Are these reliable sources in anyways connected to the GoI? IS the GoI even thinking and trying to have a "friendly chat" with the said serving officers?

Or is it running to America crying big bad wolf?
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Rana had sent an email to Headley on March 4, 2009 wherein he disclosed names of his two brothers, Brigadier Mohawat Hussain Rana and Sibte Hassan Rana.
The recent killings/attempted killings of some Brigadiers may be linked to this. Either to "erase" evidence or the "other Side" taking revenge!

More important is the money transfer--From ISI money has come to Rana who set up the Headley operations--since Headley seems to have spent lots of money. Now Pakistan army financing Rana to spread terror means the original money given by USA to Pakistan army is getting re-cycled to attack Denmark and India and may be USA.
I think some US citizens should focus on this issue and may be file a case against US Government for Financing global terrorism by funding TSP army/ISI :eek:
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FBI Gets 60 Days To File Indictment Against Headley
Chief Judge James F Holderman has extended till next January 1, the date of filing indictment for the two. FBI agents arrested Headley October 18 from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport as he preparing to board a flight to Philadelphia, and subsequently arrested Tahawwur Hussain Rana, whose former name was Daood Gilani. The two intended to travel to Pakistan, apparently to firm up their latest terror designs.
It seems that USA has special screening for anyone applying for visa to Pakistan and thats how they seem to have nabbed David Headley aka Daood Gilani!
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Patni wrote: It seems that USA has special screening for anyone applying for visa to Pakistan and thats how they seem to have nabbed David Headley aka Daood Gilani!
Possible. About two years back, even KSA introduced such a scheme. No Saudi citizen can apply for a TSP visa unless he/she first got a clearance from the Home Ministry.
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Is it possible that all these arrests are due to the facts that the Mumbai attacks targetted the Uber rich and their assets in Mumbai too. Ambani's, Mittal's and Tata money and influence at work here? If so, then it will be the begining of the end for all the pakis and pseudo pakis(brigadiers and mahesh Bhats) involved here.
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^^^^^
Quite possible. One of the largest indian corporates invests heavily in strategic thinking
(in terms of funding thinktanks along the lines of Carnegi, Ford, etc.), and hence got
pissed off with Mumbai attack. Hence the pressure is building up. If these corporates
pull their US connection strings then it will be quite possible to bring Gilani and Rana to
India for further investigation.
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This Headley connection proves that the 26/11 happened with the a lot of ground work and sleeper cell help in Mumbai. Our CON party ignored all the evidence in order to win elections. I have no confidence that they will take any action against contacts of Headley or Rana.
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Probe team got good information on Headley: PC
“The team had a good visit. They have come back with good information,” Mr. Chidambaram told reporters here when asked about the trip that officials from Intelligence Bureau and RAW undertook to the US last week to obtain details of the terror plan of Headley.

Asked whether Headley was linked to the Mumbai attacks, the Home Minister snapped, saying “This is not a cricket match which gives a ball-by-ball description. Investigation is on and once the investigating agency completes investigations, we will share whatever has to be shared.”
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PDF file of CRIMINAL COMPLAINT of FBI against TAHAWWUR HUSSAIN RANA
Lashkar-e-Taiba Shifts its Focus From Denmark to Potential New Attack in India
63. In July and August 2009, Individual A exchanged a series of emails with Lashkar-e-
Taiba Member A. Certain of these emails are summarized below.
64. On July 3, 2009, Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A sent Individual A an email in which
Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A said, “i need to see you for some new investment plans.”
65. On July 8, 2009, Individual A sent Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A an email which stated, in
part: “What do you want me to do. Where are you interested in making investments.”
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66. In another email on July 8, 2009, Individual A told Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A that “I
think when we get a chance we should revisit our last location again and say hi to Rahul.”
From a review of Individual A’s various emails, it is clear that“Rahul” refers to a
prominent Indian actor with the first name “Rahul.”
67. Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A replied to the above email on July 8, 2009 and told
Individual A in an email that “to see rahul is a good idea coz have some work for you
over there too. Matters are good enough to move forward....”
68. On July 9, 2009, Individual A responded:
When you say “move forward” do you mean in the North direction or towards
Rahul. Also in the future if we need to meet to discuss anything, do i have to
come all the way over there or can we meet somewhere in the middle like Africa
or middle east.
69. The same day, Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A responded that “i mean towards rahul.”
70. On July 10, 2009, Individual A sent an email to Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A in which he
stated:
I would like to know a few things if you can tell me:
1) What is the status with the Northern project, is it still postponed indefinitely?
2) The visit to Rahul’s place, is it for checking out real estate property like before,
or something different and if so tell me what you can please. Also is it exactly in
Rahul’s city or different one?
3) How long do you think i will need to stay at Rahuls place to complete this task.
4) Will i have to stay there continuously for a while, or back and forth like before.
72. In an email to Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A on July 16, 2009, Individual A stated, in part:
“One very important thing I need to know please is that how long do you need me for,
meaning how long should it take me to finish my work, in your opinion. And is it really
urgent? Before it seemed that the Northern Project was really urgent.”
73. After Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A responded on July 18, 2009, that “it may take
somewhere between 2 to 4 weeks,” Individual A replied on July 19, 2009, that “I think i
can manage it,” and that he would be available in October. He closed his email by asking
“Is the Northern Investment definitely postponed for now?” Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A
and Individual A continued to exchange emails through late August 2009, when
Individual A told Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A that he “will be there end of next month.”
Read it fully, as it provides lots of details which needs to be analysed.
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Rana wanted to post a bond of $1 million as a Bail!!
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.
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Patni wrote:Rana wanted to post a bond of $1 million as a Bail!!
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, . . .
The US investigators should check out all these people.
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Why did FBI identify Ilyas Kashmiri by name while the LeT handler was not so identified ?
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On or about October 3, 2009, as Individual A was preparing to travel to Pakistan,
Individual A spoke to RANA in a conversation that was recorded. Individual A asked
RANA to create an email account using the Gmail service with the user name
“liaqatbin11.” Individual A instructed RANA to change the email account name after
using it two or three times, and gave him directions for changing the name. Individual A
stated that the “liaqatbin” portion of the name would remain, but that the number 11
would change, and that to determine the second number, RANA should start by
multiplying by two and subtracting two. Individual A explained that the number used to
multiply 11 would increase by one with each new account. Individual A provided an
example, and RANA worked the math out loud for determining several numbers.
So it seems like pakis have fascination for "11"
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Police records statement of Rahul and Headley's common friend
. . . police has recorded the statement of a common friend of the suspected American terrorist and Rahul, son of film director Mahesh Bhatt.

According to police sources, Rahul came into contact with Headley through one Vilas who also worked at the gym Moksha in Breach Candy area in south Mumbai.

Mahesh Bhatt confirmed that Vilas is a mediator through whom Rahul knew Headley but the noted film maker dismissed the possibility of his son’s involvement in any terror activities.
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My son doesn't need anybody's clean chit: Mahesh Bhatt
"I have read news reports attributed to security agencies wherein they have said that Rahul has not been given a clean chit for his Headley connection. I am deeply hurt. He is a true and responsible Indian who himself volunteered to share the information with the agencies. Rahul's heart is clear and he doesn't require any clean chit from anyone," Bhatt told PTI.
"We were asked to maintain silence, but see now what is happening. I kept my word (by remaining silent) and look what the security agencies are doing," Bhatt said,
Only others and their sons and daughters do not have golden hearts and would therefore need chits from Mahesh Bhatt and their ilk.
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sreeji wrote:Is it possible that all these arrests are due to the facts that the Mumbai attacks targetted the Uber rich and their assets in Mumbai too. Ambani's, Mittal's and Tata money and influence at work here? If so, then it will be the begining of the end for all the pakis and pseudo pakis(brigadiers and mahesh Bhats) involved here.
Is it not enough that Mumbai the commercial capital was attacked? Why this divisive thinking and that too on BR? If you want to persist, I suggest re-thinking whether you should be on BR or not. I mean its commie talk.
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Yes, we have lots of p-sec Stalinist yellow media freely offering clean chits so we don't need any more from government..look at how religiously yellow daily has been appending Mahesh Bhat's declaration of innocence to every news item about this topic. Contrast that with coverage on Goa blasts and other cases..
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This case if led to conclusion will unravel many shibboleths. And we see them unravel. Thats why asked to create this thread.

One note for US NRIs: you will come across many TSP community leaders like RANA. Be wary and dont be deluded. They could be ISI fronts.
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there's a lot of presupposition of guilt on this thread... i thought BRF was more mature than that.
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