Sunday, October 17, 2010

FBI was 'alerted' to Mumbai plot

Al Jazeera2010-10-17

Two wives of an American man convicted for his role in the Mumbai attacks had tipped off the FBI about their husband's suspicious movements well before the assaults in 2008, according to media reports. US authorities had been informed that David Headley was tied to the Pakistani group alleged to be behind the plot, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing a person close to the case. Headley pleaded guilty in March to a dozen US terrorism charges related to the Mumbai attacks, and to a plot to attack the Danish newspaper that had published cartoons in 2005 that mocked the Prophet Muhammad. In his trial this year, the businessman...

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