http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/ ... epage=trueWorkers of the newly-formed Mahagujarat Janata Party, floated by former leaders of the Gujarat BJP, on Monday ransacked some cinema theatres in Rajkot screening the Hindi film Tum Mile, produced by Mahesh Bhatt. Besides damaging posters, some workers burst firecrackers inside the hall when the show was on. The scared viewers rushed out. The MJP workers were protesting against the alleged links of Rahul, son of Mr. Bhatt, with terror suspect David Headley.
The Curious Case of Daood Gilani alias David Headley & co
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The Headley Connection
Did Headley, whose visits to India coincided with July 2006 explosions 26/11, play a role in the planning and execution of these attacks? Were there others who had helped him?
The Headley Connection
Did Headley, whose visits to India coincided with July 2006 explosions 26/11, play a role in the planning and execution of these attacks? Were there others who had helped him?
The Mumbai Police, who were all along insisting that the case relating to the 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai had been thoroughly investigated and that there were no more missing links or gaps in the investigation, have been embarrassed by the discovery by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the US that David Coleman Headley, previously known till 2006 as Daood Gilani, a US citizen of Pakistani origin, arrested by them on October 3,2009, at a Chicago airport while he was about to leave for Pakistan, had been visiting India off and on ever since he joined the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in 2006 and had been trained by it.
The kind of alarm bell, which rang in the FBI offices in Chicago, when Headley and Rana showed an interest in opening a branch of Rana's immigration services agency in Denmark, did not seem to have rung in the Indian intelligence agencies when Headley and Rana showed an interest in 2006 in opening an office of an immigration services agency in Mumbai.
Since 2003, the LET has been thinking of mounting a terrorist strike in India from US territory. An LET cell in the US consisting of Pakistani-origin people and white converts to Islam was detected and neutralised by the FBI in 2003. Despite this, the LET has not given up the idea of using US passport holders for a terrorist strike in India.
May be he was our state guest or guest of AntulayIn Denmark, Headley was staying in shoe-string budget hotels. He had been spending money more liberally in India as evidenced by his two stays in the expensive Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, his visiting a local gym frequented by film stars, his hiring an office accommodation and a flat etc. Who was paying for all this?

We continue to be taken by surprise again and again despite the claims of a significant improvement made by the Government.
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Nuke sites put on high alert
The NIA was created after 26/11, wasn't it? Seems they're taking the lead in the investigations...The Centre has sounded out all states, especially Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, to protect nuclear plants and installations on the belief that terror suspect David Coleman Headley had visited these states.
The Home Ministry and the Intelligence Bureau’s suspicions that Headley and Tahawwur Hussein Rana, the Pakistan-born Canadian national, who was his accomplice, may have had plans to target the country’s nuclear facilities grew after some maps and documents were found in their possession by the American FBI which is probing the case and sharing information with their Indian counterparts.
All states with nuclear plants have been advised to step up patrolling and vigil around the facilities as a precautionary measure, Union Home Ministry sources said here on Monday.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has asked fitness consultant and son of film maker Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul, not to leave Mumbai till such time that investigations into the case against Headley and Rana are completed.
An NIA team arrived here recently and is recording statements of all who came in contact with Headley during his frequent visits to Mumbai between 2006 and 2009, a senior Mumbai police officer said. The NIA has also asked three other persons, who were believed to have been in contact with Headley, to stay put in Mumbai for some time. The identities of the three, however, have not been disclosed.
Home Ministry sources said that the NIA was “minutely” investigating all possible angles in the case it has filed against Headley and Rana. Among the leads that are being followed is tracking down the electronic footprints that Headley and Rana have left, including exchange of emails with their handlers in Pakistan, as well as contacts with suspected state actors in that country. The sources said Headley, accused of plotting terror attacks in India on behalf of Pakistan-based LeT, had visited Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, which have high-security nuclear installations, raising the suspicion that atomic plants could be on the radar of the terrorists.
“The step is precautionary in nature. The states have been asked to increase vigil to thwart any sabotage attempt aimed at these vital facilities,” they said. The country has nuclear power plants in Maharashtra , Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.
Some of the main nuclear facilities are Tarapur atomic power plant (Maharasthra) , BARC (Mumbai), Kaiga (North Karnataka), Kakrapara (Gujarat), Rawatbhatta (Rajasthan), Narora (UP) and Jadugoda (Jharkhand), Kalpakkam and Kudankulam (TN). This is not for the first time an alert has been sounded in relation to the country’s nuclear establishments. States have been repeatedly advised in the past by National Security Advisor M K Narayanan about suspected LeT design on key Indian facilities. Narayanan had then made suggested that terrorist cadres may have infiltrated the armed forces.
Soon after the arrest of Headley by the FBI in Chicago last month, there have been various reports of attacks being planned in India. The US has said Headley traveled to Pakistan several times to meet a leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami, which has ties to the al Qaeda, and members of the LeT.
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^^^ NIA was formed by NSA MK Narayanan. The idea was most likely mooted before but failed due to lack of political support. But the shock of events in Mumbai triggered support for the project from all of India’s political parties (BJP, communists, etc) and local governments.
Feb CCS meeting recommended one large Domestic intelligence agency to deal with terror like US Homeland Security.
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Decoding the Headley-Rana case
Feb CCS meeting recommended one large Domestic intelligence agency to deal with terror like US Homeland Security.
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Decoding the Headley-Rana case
Wilson John is Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, New DelhiNovember 16, 2009 16:53 IST
The key to the conspiracy hatched by David Coleman Headley and Tahawwura Hussain Rana may lie in Bangladesh and Pakistan, notes Wilson John.
Who controlled the activities of David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the two key Lashkar-e-Tayiba [ Images ] operators arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago early this month? Was it Hafiz Saeed [ Images ], the Lashkar supremo still roaming free in Pakistan? Or were there more than one handler?
Some important keys to these puzzles lie in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
First key is the Lashkar network based in Bangladesh with extensive links to the trans-national terrorist group, Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami and its several local allies, including some influential political and religious leaders. Lashkar has been expanding its network in Bangladesh for 14 years.
Within days of the Rana-Headley arrests, the Bangladesh security agencies arrested three Lashkar operatives from Dhaka -- Mufti Harun Izahar, son of Islami Oikya Jote leader Mufti Izaharul Islam, Shahidul Islam and Al Amin alias Saiful. All three had regular conversations with Hadley, Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar's Bangladesh coordinator, Sheikh Abdur Rehman.
Harun, who also ran an Islamic kindergarten school in Chittagong, said Saeed spoke to him on the mobile and asked him to target the US embassy in Dhaka. He said Saeed spoke to him in Arabic and gave him specific instructions on how to carry out the attack. Harun had recently visited Pakistan. For the attack, Harun and his associates got 600,000 takas (about Rs 402,000) from Lashkar's chief financial officer, Indian-born Saudi national Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq.
Bahaziq, who recruited fugitive Indian gangster Dawood Ibrahim [ Images ] and Azzam Ghauri to the Lashkar, is a close associate of Saeed.
Ghauri was one of the first Lashkar commanders in India, and a partner of Abdul Karim Tunda, who became the operational commander of the terrorist group in Bangladesh. Ghauri was killed in an encounter in 2000.
Following the arrest of Harun and his two aides, the Bangladesh police arrested three more Lashkar operatives subsequently. The police suspect that there were at least 20 more, both Bangladeshi and Indian nationals, who could be involved in the foiled terrorist plot. Some of them are from Kerala [ Images ] and other south Indian states and work primarily in the textile sector.
Harun and his aides were not an independent Lashkar cell but only part of a larger network which was being strengthened for quite sometime. The first inkling of such a network, incidentally, came when two key Lashkar leaders were arrested in Bangladesh in July -- Maulana Mohammad Mansur Ali alias Maulana Habibullah and Mufti Sheikh Obaidullah. Ali is an Afghan jihad veteran. Both worked closely with HuJI in Bangladesh, training several Indian and Bangladeshi nationals in weapons and explosives.
Two intriguing links can be found in the dossier which project the trans-national nature of Lashkar's expansion in Asia for the past several years. One is that both Habibullah and Obaidullah were arrested on the basis of information provided by two aides of Dawood Ibrahim, Zahid Sheikh and Dawood Merchant, arrested in Dhaka earlier.
Sheikh said there were about 150 paid D-company men in Bangladesh and their associates included former ministers, senior police officers and top businessmen.
Lashkar operations in Bangladesh, incidentally, draw large funding from some top businessmen dealing in pharmaceuticals.
Both Habibullah and Obaidullah drew a month salary of 7,000 takas (about Rs 4,600) from Sheikh Abdur Rahman, Lashkar's commander for Bangladesh based in Pakistan. Rahman has since been arrested in Pakistan, but strangely enough, there is no word on it in Pakistan media. Rahman had also bankrolled Maulana Harun who was working with David Headley to carry out terrorist attacks. Hardly any detail about Rahman is known.
There are two Abdur Rahmans in the Lashkar hierarchy -- one is Mufti Abdur Rahman Hafiz, one of the teachers at Muridke (the Lashkar headquarters in Pakistan), and another is Abdur Rahman Makki, in charge of Lashkar's external affairs, and Hafiz Saeed's brother-in-law. Makki, a fierce proponent of suicide terrorism, has been in charge of organising Lashkar's networks in Asia and Europe.
Another intriguing link is Amir Reza Khan, commander of the Asif Reza Commando Force, a little known group which was involved in the 2002 attack on the US consulate in Kolkata [ Images ]. Reza, like Rahman, is today in Pakistan. The Bangladeshi maulanas told the police they were in constant touch with Amir Reza while organising the Lashkar network.
Amir Reza is wanted for the abduction of Kolkata businessman Partho Roy Burman (July 2001) in which a part of the ransom money, $100,000, was wired to the 9/11 leader Mohammad Atta via Aftab Ansari and Omar Syed Sheikh.
Reza is also involved in creating the Indian Mujahideen [ Images ], the new terrorist group which carried a series of attacks in India in 2008.
The third key in Pakistan is Illyas Kashmir [ Images ]i, a former Special Services Group member who took up terrorism and linked up with Lashkar although he floated his own outfit, the 313 Brigade. He was a favourite of the Pakistan army [ Images ]; the then Rawalpindi Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmad, had visited his training facilities at Kotli, Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Kashmiri is a mercenary jihadi, offering his services to groups that were in need of expert trainers. He was a key trainer of mujahideen during the Afghan jihad and an expert in explosives.
He had several former army officers in his group, one of them was Major Haroon Ashique, another former SSG officer, who worked with Lashkar operational commander, Zaki ur-Rahman Lakhvi. Lakhvi was one of the masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai [ Images ] attacks. Headley and Rana were in touch with Kashmiri.
Lakhvi's contacts in the army were Brigadiers Ijaz Shah and Riaz-ul Chibb, both retired ISI departmental heads in Punjab [ Images ]. Shah, a close confidant of former President Pervez Musharraf [ Images ] and creator of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, handled Kashmiri before he fell out with him. Chibb was accused by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto [ Images ] of conspiring against her.
Rana, in his e-mails, had referred to two of his relatives in the Pakistan army -- Brigadier Mohawat Rana and Brigadier Sibte Hassan Rana -- who were willing to help them.
Though nothing more is known about Headley-Rana's Pakistan army links, there are enough indications that a transnational terrorist operation of the magnitude the duo were planning could not have been carried without the active support of the Pakistan army and ISI, facing a serious threat from terrorist groups that have cut their umbilical cords with them.
The attack plan, as becoming evident now, had two specific targets -- Denmark and India -- and one strategic objective: to divert the global attention and pressure on Pakistan's western front and in Afghanistan. The Denmark attack could have come from a Western country while the Indian plot was to be carried out by Lashkar networks from Bangladesh.
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what is preventing us from knocking of all those mentrioned above in TSP , rather than investigation and wasting everybody's time
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Ananya wrote:what is preventing us from knocking of all those mentioned above in TSP , rather than investigation and wasting everybody's time
These are all Tier I operators. Eventually the lead will take to the higher level operatives.
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the D company is around for abt 20 years now and the Teir 1 can be eliminated , the middle and High level operators like the ISI can been taken out in a specified time frame ( depending on the leads they provide) all these guys seem to be around till they retire . 

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Tribune:
Rana was everything
Rana was everything
And recall he has to brothers in the TSPA who are brigadiers.Rana was fixer, planner, financier
From channelising funds, facilitating Headley’s visits to getting him a Pak visa, Rana did it all, say investigators
Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service
NIA forms teams to trace Headley visits
Mumbai: The National Investigation Agency has formed several teams here as well as in other states and started questioning several people to trace the footsteps of David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwar Hussain Rana, in India as new leads suggested that they had visited Kerala. NIA officials were looking for an estate agent in Khar, a western suburb of the city, and Tardeo of Central Mumbai, who could have helped Headley in finding a house in Breach Candy in South Mumbai, official sources said. — PTI
New Delhi, November 15
Even as the investigators are probing David Headley’s role in various terror plots, including the deadly 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the handiwork of his accomplice, Tahhawur Hussian Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian national, has started to unravel and appears to be equally dangerous.
Rana, the 48-year-old business man, whose bearded, bespectacled face is being splashed on television news bulletins these days, say sources, was in know of everything. He was a key player, the planner and the man through whom funds were channelised to Headley and it was Rana who acted as the “fixer” for Headley.
Investigators now know that Rana was the one who owned the immigration/visa consultancy firm, whose branch Headley opened in Tardeo, Mumbai. The firm functioned in Mumbai till July 2008 without any suspicion and was possibly used to facilitate the escape of militants of the Indian Mujahideen after blasts in Jaipur and Delhi. Rana’s firm had enabled Headley to travel twice to Denmark as a representative of his immigration company.
It was Rana who arranged air tickets for Headley's overseas travels, including the nine visits to India between 2006 and 2009 and also to Europe. Again it was Rana, who used his contacts with the Pakistan Consul General in Chicago, Aman Rashid, when he attempted to get a five-year visa for Headley. Rana falsely described Headley as a ‘white-coloured American’ and not as someone who hailed from Pakistan.
Notably, the Consul General, Rana and Headley had attended the same school - the Punjab Government’s Army Cadet School at Hasan Abdal in Pakistan. The Pakistani diplomat knew Headley by his original name Daood Gilani and it was Rana who tried to hoodwink the diplomat with the “white American” theory.
The link of Headley and Rana to the Pakistan-based Laskhar-e-Toiba has already been established from frequent calls to suspicious numbers in Pakistan and also their visits. The FBI lists two unmanned persons in Pakistan who have so far been identified as “contact-A” and “Laskhar contact-A”. Rana knew both of them.
Even the FBI knows the importance of Rana and has sought a nearly 60-day extension till January 14, 2010, to file an indictment against him. Originally the chargesheet was to be filed on November 19. The FBI was granted such an extension in time against Headley and now has time till January 1, 2010. Investigators, who are in the know of matters, say Indian officials need time to examine the evidence.
Meanwhile, Home Secretary GK Pillai told reporters on the sidelines of a function that the probe in India will take four to six weeks. “Investigations are on, it will take us at least, I will put it as something between four to six weeks, to complete the probe. Once that investigation is completed, we will know the links,” he said. In reply to a specific question on Rana’s movements, Pillai said he had visited Kochi in Kerala and the probe to find out what he did while in the city is on.
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http://www.dailypioneer.com/215941/Igno ... gnals.html
Ignoring smoke signals
Ignoring smoke signals
In the weeks following the November 26, 2008 attacks in a piece that appeared in the Asian Times, its Pakistan bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad made three important revelations, two of which are of consequence to this series.
Shahzad revealed that the 26/11 plot was originally conceived as a low key operation by the ISI targeting Kashmir, but was hijacked by Al Qaeda to unleash terror on Mumbai. While the Lashkar angle has been the obsessive focus of the Indian establishment, Al Qaeda command and control of the attack was practically ignored in the immediate aftermath of 26/11. A significant revelation by Shahzad that was also ignored was that Al Qaeda had been using India as a safe route from the Arabian Sea into Gujarat and then on to Mumbai and then either by air or overland to the United Arab Emirates.
In a reflection on how yet another smoke signal was ignored we are now told that the Indian security agencies had indeed stumbled on references to the ‘313 Brigade’ during the phone intercepts of conversations between the 26/11 terrorists and their Pakistan-based handlers. It was reported back in February 2009 that the Indian authorities were confused on whether ‘313 Brigade’ referred to a brigade within the Pakistani military establishment.
It was back in September 2007 before the wave of Indian Mujahideen attacks started in India in Uttar Pradesh, that Al Qaeda’s Takfiri faultline was revealed with news that Ilyas Kashmiri had assumed the leadership of the Pakistani jihadi groups operating in Waziristan. While Kashmiri remained off the radar for Indian security agencies, little did we realise that Al Qaeda’s Takfiri impulses would unleash a wave of attacks of mass terror across multiple Indian cities.
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Mahesh Bhatt's Indignation
Mr. Bhatt told The Hindu over the phone: “I don’t know and I don’t care. Even Rahul does not know. Neither the police nor the NIA has told us anything. What has been appearing in the media over the past few days are lies, lies and complete lies. Rahul is not a criminal that he can [be constrained]. Who are you to give him a clean chit? Is he at the mercy of [the investigating agency]? He got a clean chit the day he went up to the police.” Mr. Bhatt said the official probe was running into blind alleys till Rahul and his friend decided to approach the police with information on Headley. “These are upright men who told the clueless agencies [about Headley]. This is a recorded fact. Even the IB [Intelligence Bureau] has conceded that the investigative machinery was not exploring the case in the right direction. However, their vanity prevents them from applauding the contribution of the civil society. By doing this, they are not only [violating] civil liberties and rights, but are sowing the seeds of doom.” Criticising the media, he said the media space was vitiated with falsehoods and mala fide intentions and the silence of the investigating agency over it was deliberate.
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Is the Pioneer article claiming that its AlQ that is at the root of mumbai Terrorist attack and all others and not the TSPA based elements?
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I am not entirely sure if this is true. Dubai International Airport is not used by terrorists operating in Af-Pak anymore, as the agencies were able to watch and arrest them there, monitoring of movements was very effective. So, this was moved to Doha airport. Agencies have been on the case there too.vijayk wrote:http://www.dailypioneer.com/215941/Igno ... gnals.html
Ignoring smoke signals
In the weeks following the November 26, 2008 attacks in a piece that appeared in the Asian Times, its Pakistan bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad made three important revelations, two of which are of consequence to this series.
Shahzad revealed that the 26/11 plot was originally conceived as a low key operation by the ISI targeting Kashmir, but was hijacked by Al Qaeda to unleash terror on Mumbai. While the Lashkar angle has been the obsessive focus of the Indian establishment, Al Qaeda command and control of the attack was practically ignored in the immediate aftermath of 26/11. A significant revelation by Shahzad that was also ignored was that Al Qaeda had been using India as a safe route from the Arabian Sea into Gujarat and then on to Mumbai and then either by air or overland to the United Arab Emirates.
The most common route is by Boat from coast of Pak (Baluch area) to Oman. Oman is the transit point. The same route used for people smuggling. Terrorists coming back from Af-Pak prefer this route. Then onwards by land to Yemen. A lot of speculation that OBL is actually hiding in Hadhramouth(defended by 4 tribes there) and had escaped after Tora Bora.
Besides, you think India will just let these people fly out without checking their entry stamps? The only way is if the terrorists say their passports were lost and there will be 100's of questions before they are allowed to leave. It doesn't sound like something easy to do.
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The truth is there is no difference between AlQ and TSP. They are all same may be different factions in ISI/TSP army supporting different factions of AlQ. Their end purpose is same.ramana wrote:Is the Pioneer article claiming that its AlQ that is at the root of mumbai Terrorist attack and all others and not the TSPA based elements?
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If the bolded part were true, it doesn't speak highly of the investigative officers.vijayk wrote:http://www.dailypioneer.com/215941/Igno ... gnals.html
Ignoring smoke signalsIn a reflection on how yet another smoke signal was ignored we are now told that the Indian security agencies had indeed stumbled on references to the ‘313 Brigade’ during the phone intercepts of conversations between the 26/11 terrorists and their Pakistan-based handlers. It was reported back in February 2009 that the Indian authorities were confused on whether ‘313 Brigade’ referred to a brigade within the Pakistani military establishment.
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You are right. At this point of time, they have all merged. They are referred to as AQAM (Al Qaeda and Allied Movement). They see a great opportunity to re-establish the shattered Caliphate as they sense victory. They are coordinating their activities well. That's why a Punjabi Taliban like Ilyas Kashmiri is direcing the operations of Al Qaeda today.vijayk wrote:The truth is there is no difference between AlQ and TSP. They are all same . . .
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http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/ ... -youth.htm
Rana, Headley were in Kochi last year to recruit youngsters
Rana, Headley were in Kochi last year to recruit youngsters
Tahawur Hussain Rana, who was arrested in the United States along with terror operative David Headley by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, had visited Kochi on November 16 and had stayed in Taj Residency (now named Gateway) for a day.
The Central Intelligence Agency has gathered details of Rana's stay in Kochi and has found that he had been in town on a recruitment mission named 'Talent spotting'.
Anyone thinks it was his real wife traveling with him? May be she was charming Indian guests while the man is scouting for local terrorists. The pakis have become so bold with our visa policies, terrorist friends in the press, COMMIES and corrupt politicians and left wing NGOs that they fell home there. They must love our hospitality.Intelligence sleuths confirmed to rediff.com that Rana had stayed in the hotel along with his wife Samraz Akthar.
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Shyam-ji,I am not entirely sure if this is true. Dubai International Airport is not used by terrorists operating in Af-Pak anymore, as the agencies were able to watch and arrest them there, monitoring of movements was very effective. So, this was moved to Doha airport. Agencies have been on the case there too.
Agencies= Indian agencies?
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Zeenews was saying that Headley urf Gilani was traveling to Munnar in Kerala. What is there? Also he used just David Coleman there.
BTW he does look non Desi.
BTW he does look non Desi.
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tea estates workers are primarlly tamil and could have connections with LTTE. LTTE was active last year not now anyways
Other thing would be that the area is full of ravines and valleys, can hide anything
Other thing would be that the area is full of ravines and valleys, can hide anything

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Headley visited Pune's Osho (Rajneesh) ashram for meditation : http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/ ... tation.htm
scouting for new targets?
scouting for new targets?
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Kochi also has the Jewish Quarter, though only a handful of Jews are left though there is a lovely synagogue there. Osho would be a good target too as there are a number of foreigners possibly Jews too. After the Mumbai attack, the LeT International has international targets in India.
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More info on the Rana trip to Kochi
Terror suspect Tahawur Hussain Rana has shot pictures of vital installations at Kochi when he toured the Kerala town, say National Investigating Agency officials.
Rana -- on a cruise on the Arabian Sea for at least thirty minutes -- photographed Cochin Port trust, Vallarpadom Containor Terminal and Cochin Shipyard, sources said, adding that the terror suspect hired a private boat instead of vessels available with the Taj Residency, where he stayed. {Having stayed in Taj Residency, Kochi, I know that they have good boats and they arrange them quickly and the boarding point is just behind their hotel}
The NIA team is also probing the role played by two Pakistani Embassy officials in New Delhi in providing satellite phones to both Rana and Headley.
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Westernsum wrote: Shyam-ji,
Agencies= Indian agencies?
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http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/ ... learer.htm
Headley-Rana link to 26/11 carnage becomes clearer
Headley-Rana link to 26/11 carnage becomes clearer
How do they know if they had videos? I did not see any thing in FBI chargesheet? The complaint only specifies that they have Danish embassy and newspaper building story.Sources in both agencies told rediff.com that the duo had both video footage and photographs of the targets that were attacked on November 26.
Shows how shoddy was our previous investigation. The Govt., the investigation agencies all declared the probe is over and submitted the report to Pakis. Pakis must laughing their asses off as Gilani kept visiting and setting up new terror cells.The 20-member investigating team discovered that Headley had not just stayed at the Taj Mahal hotel's [ Images ] Heritage wing, but also at the Trident, which was one of the targets of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba [ Images ] terrorists.
Also, it has been revealed that Headley and Rana were both in Mumbai at the time of the attacks and left immediately after it ended. Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has confirmed this fact.
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^^^ don't be too harsh. headley had a very good and deep cover. hell, even i could have stayed/dined/strolled through both those hotels over the same period.
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Wasn't there also another US EJ in Mumbai whose wifi connection was 'compromised' by the terrorists and used for communicating ? That guy was also detained by the police before he fled to the US.
Wasn't there also another US EJ in Mumbai whose wifi connection was 'compromised' by the terrorists and used for communicating ? That guy was also detained by the police before he fled to the US.
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As far as I know there is a Chabad (Jew House?) House right at the entrance from the North Main road going into Osho Ashram. I hope our police are following up on that.Pranav wrote:Headley visited Pune's Osho (Rajneesh) ashram for meditation : http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/nov/ ... tation.htm
scouting for new targets?
Latest from Onsite: There has been threat to the building from a month or so. There have been police and commandos with barricades posted there since with checking going on.
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OSHO would be a soft target, lots of westerners and rich indians, easy to infiltrate and slaughter a large number of high profile victims. other ashrams take note... (wonder if killing such 'dreadful unbelievers' would gain more sympathy from the ummah?)
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Lalmullah-jaan I believe that such wanton killing is putting off a serious segment of Indian Muslims.Lalmohan wrote: (wonder if killing such 'dreadful unbelievers' would gain more sympathy from the ummah?)
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According to reports here, my impression is that Gilani and Rana were in Indian till 11/26 and went to Pakistan after 11/26 from India. Did they look at all passengers leaving to Pakiland after the attacks?Lalmohan wrote:^^^ don't be too harsh. headley had a very good and deep cover. hell, even i could have stayed/dined/strolled through both those hotels over the same period.
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TSP abscondees usually go via Gulf countries. They usually have another identity/passport waiting for them in Dubai or thereabouts and use the Gulf as a staging point.vijayk wrote:According to reports here, my impression is that Gilani and Rana were in Indian till 11/26 and went to Pakistan after 11/26 from India. Did they look at all passengers leaving to Pakiland after the attacks?
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i believe that IM's are the future of the greater ummah being brought into a moderate state of being, perhaps in a loose coalition with moderating forces in Iran and maybe Turkey. the rest of the ummah are highly sympathetic to the negative spin and ready to believe the worstshiv wrote:Lalmullah-jaan I believe that such wanton killing is putting off a serious segment of Indian Muslims.Lalmohan wrote: (wonder if killing such 'dreadful unbelievers' would gain more sympathy from the ummah?)
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not just the Gulf, these two have connections/bases in other continents, they don't even have to go to pakistan. headley in particular would be able to get in and out of lots of places unnoticedRangudu wrote:TSP abscondees usually go via Gulf countries. They usually have another identity/passport waiting for them in Dubai or thereabouts and use the Gulf as a staging point.vijayk wrote:According to reports here, my impression is that Gilani and Rana were in Indian till 11/26 and went to Pakistan after 11/26 from India. Did they look at all passengers leaving to Pakiland after the attacks?
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Kenneth Haywoodderkonig wrote:^^^^
Wasn't there also another US EJ in Mumbai whose wifi connection was 'compromised' by the terrorists and used for communicating ? That guy was also detained by the police before he fled to the US.
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http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bollywood-li ... ml?from=tnNew Delhi: Investigators probing David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan-born US national arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror attacks in India and Denmark, have now cause to believe a Bollywood link may exist.
Sources tell CNN-IBN that Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi could have been in touch with Headley and that investigators are looking to probe that link.
Sources say investigators have found phone records that link Emraan Hashmi to Headley. They have added that Mahesh Bhatt's son, Rahul Bhatt introduced Emraan Hashmi to Headley.
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Headley, Rana, and the 26/11 perpetrators had same handlers
Posted On: 17-Nov-2009 17:08:05 By: Anirudh Kumar
New Delhi: American terror suspect David Headley, his Canadian associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana and 26/11 Mumbai attack perpetrators had the same handlers in Pakistan, in a fresh pointer to the links between the duo and the incident.
Investigations indicate Headley and Rana were part of a larger conspiracy behind last year's mayhem in the country's financial capital, a top government source said today.
"Evidence is slowly getting established that Headley and Rana were part of the larger conspiracy behind the Mumbai attack. They were in touch with same people who were giving directions to (Azmal Amir) Kasab (the lone surviving terrorist in Mumbai attack) and other terrorists," the source said.
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no wonder SRK was questioned, may be SRK would shed some light on the questions thats was put to him as he was clueless.
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The two recees are the left hand and the piglets where the right hand. usually the left and right do not know about one another. These two jerks are a team of two and one among others.
this is a never ending wild goose chase unless the head is knocked off.
this is a never ending wild goose chase unless the head is knocked off.
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another finding the wiki on Emraan Hashmi , sounds intresting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emraan_Hashmi
seems to share a philosophy as TSP and intresting factor is that of the link with bhatt's fly. looks like these peace makers are like joker in a pack of cards .
wonder where the filim financing came from.
i may be wrong here there was SNL feature or on FOX abt a guy wearing a tshirt 'down with Bush' sometime in january.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emraan_Hashmi
seems to share a philosophy as TSP and intresting factor is that of the link with bhatt's fly. looks like these peace makers are like joker in a pack of cards .
wonder where the filim financing came from.
i may be wrong here there was SNL feature or on FOX abt a guy wearing a tshirt 'down with Bush' sometime in january.
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Isn't Emram Hasehmi, Mahesh Bhatt's nephew? Something is rotten with the Bhatt family for consorting with terrorists and ISI agents.
vijayk, Dont be so harsh. India is not a police state. So there will be leakages. More important is to get to the facts.
While at it is anyone comprehending the fact that US is a L-e-T base of operations? and this is goig on with impunity even after 9/11. Try to google for all news reports since 2001 on L-e-T and USA.
vijayk, Dont be so harsh. India is not a police state. So there will be leakages. More important is to get to the facts.
While at it is anyone comprehending the fact that US is a L-e-T base of operations? and this is goig on with impunity even after 9/11. Try to google for all news reports since 2001 on L-e-T and USA.