India Seeks
Extradition Of Suspect
India
has said that it will seek the extradition of David Coleman
Headley, a U.S. citizen arrested for planning attacks against
India at the behest of Pakistan-based terror outfit
Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT).
The Mumbai Police and the newly formed National Investigation
Agency are jointly probing 49-year-old Headley's involvement in
the Mumbai terror attacks which claimed the lives of over 170
people, including foreign nationals, last November.
The U.S. has already indicted Headley on six counts of
conspiracy on the Mumbai terror attacks.
According to FBI charge sheet, Headley conducted surveillance of
targets in India for more than two years before the November
2008 attacks that killed 170 people, including six U.S.
citizens.
He changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 to Headley around
Feb. 16, 2006 after he was told by his Pakistan handlers in the
LeT that he would be used to scope out terror targets in India,
the charge sheet says, adding that he attended training camps in
Pakistan in 2002 and 2003.
According to the FBI, Headley had also delivered, placed,
discharged and detonated explosives and other lethal devices in,
into and against places of public use in India in the run-up to
the attacks last year.
NAN/Yinka
