Washington: A federal grand jury on Friday returned a superseding indictment adding three defendants, including Tahawwur Rana, to charges filed last month against David Coleman Headley, alleging that they and others participated in conspiracies involving a planned terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper and the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that killed 163 people including six American nationals.
The 12-count superseding indictment contains the identical charges that were filed against Headley on December 7, 2009, and adds Rana, a Canadian citizen, as a defendant in three of the counts charging material support of the terrorism plots in Denmark and India, as well as in support of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. (Read: What David Headley, terror suspect, looks like)
Also indicted on conspiracy charges related to the Denmark plot were Ilyas Kashmiri, an alleged terror kingpin in Pakistan who is said to be in regular contact with Al-Qaeda leaders and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military, the US Department of justice said in a statement. Neither man is in US custody.
Rana and Abdur Rehman were charged separately in previous court filings, but today's indictment charges Kashmiri for the first time, although he was identified by name in the charges
filed previously against Rana, Abdur Rehman and Headley.
Rana was indicted today on three counts of providing material support to terrorism or a terrorist organisation - one count of providing material support in preparation for and in carrying out the Mumbai attacks; one count of providing material support to the Denmark terrorism plot; and one count of providing material support to Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman, also known as "Major Abdur Rehman" and "Pasha", were each charged with one count of conspiracy to murder and maim persons in Denmark, and one count of providing material support to the Danish terrorism plot.
He has remained in federal custody in Chicago since he was arrested by the FBI on October 3.
The Justice Department said in 2002 and 2003, Headley allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar, and conspired with its members and others, including Rana, Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman, in planning and executing the attacks in Denmark and India.
He allegedly conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 attacks.
The superseding indictment was announced by Patrick J Fitzgerald, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Robert D Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and the FBI offices in Los Angeles and Washington, DC are also participating in the investigation and prosecution.
The 12-count superseding indictment contains the identical charges that were filed against Headley on December 7, 2009, and adds Rana, a Canadian citizen, as a defendant in three of the counts charging material support of the terrorism plots in Denmark and India, as well as in support of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. (Read: What David Headley, terror suspect, looks like)
Also indicted on conspiracy charges related to the Denmark plot were Ilyas Kashmiri, an alleged terror kingpin in Pakistan who is said to be in regular contact with Al-Qaeda leaders and Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military, the US Department of justice said in a statement. Neither man is in US custody.
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Rana and Abdur Rehman were charged separately in previous court filings, but today's indictment charges Kashmiri for the first time, although he was identified by name in the charges
filed previously against Rana, Abdur Rehman and Headley.
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Rana was indicted today on three counts of providing material support to terrorism or a terrorist organisation - one count of providing material support in preparation for and in carrying out the Mumbai attacks; one count of providing material support to the Denmark terrorism plot; and one count of providing material support to Lashkar-e-Toiba.
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Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman, also known as "Major Abdur Rehman" and "Pasha", were each charged with one count of conspiracy to murder and maim persons in Denmark, and one count of providing material support to the Danish terrorism plot.
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He has remained in federal custody in Chicago since he was arrested by the FBI on October 3.
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The Justice Department said in 2002 and 2003, Headley allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar, and conspired with its members and others, including Rana, Kashmiri and Abdur Rehman, in planning and executing the attacks in Denmark and India.
He allegedly conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 attacks.
The superseding indictment was announced by Patrick J Fitzgerald, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Robert D Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and the FBI offices in Los Angeles and Washington, DC are also participating in the investigation and prosecution.
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