A Chicago man charged with plotting to attack a Danish newspaper also spent two years planning the deadly 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, US officials said Monday. The US Department of Justice also said a retired Pakistani military officer faces US terrorism charges in the same plot to attack a Danish newspaper which published incendiary cartoons.
The US citizen, David Headley, "earlier this decade allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar-e-Taiba, and conspired with its members and others in planning and executing the attacks in both Denmark and India," the DOJ said.
Headley, 49, faces six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and maim persons in India and Denmark, to provide material support to foreign terrorist plots, and to provide material support to Lashkar, and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of US citizens in India, it said. A separate criminal complaint was unsealed in federal court "charging Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military, with conspiracy in planning to attack the Danish newspaper and its employees."