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Move aimed at evading capital punishment. This raises concerns that he might be double agent............ He was earlier left of with mild punishment in1998????//
Chicago/ New Delhi, March 17: In a new twist, Pakistani-American David Headley, a terror suspect in the Mumbai attacks, will plead guilty before a US court on Thursday, a move that may get him a lighter sentence than the maximum death penalty.
Headley, 49, who was arrested by the FBI in October last year, will move a plea bargain under which a lighter sentence can be recommended on his pleading guilty.
Headley, an LeT operative who had pleaded not guilty to the 12-count superseding indictment filed against him on January 14, has moved for a “change of plea” which will be heard by the US district judge, Mr Harry Leinenweber, Thursday.
He had got away with a lesser sentence after he was arrested in 1998 for smuggling heroin into the US from Pakistan as he cooperated with the investigation in the case. He was sentenced to less than two years in prison and thereafter went to Pakistan to conduct undercover surveillance operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Headley, a Chicago resident, faces six counts of conspiracy involving bombing public places in India, murdering and maiming persons in India and providing material support to foreign terrorist plots and LeT; and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of US citizens in India. He is also charged with plotting attacks against a Danish newspaper which published a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed.
The FBI had slapped charges on Headley and his friend Tahawwur Rana with providing material support to the Mumbai attacks and the LeT.
Meanwhile, the Indian security establishment is concerned that US security agencies may try and shield Headley once he enters a plea bargain agreement on Thursday to escape a possible death sentence. Indian authorities said they would continue to seek Headley's extradition.
India is keenly awaiting developments in a Chicago federal court in the light of Indian security agencies’ suspicion that Headley worked as a “double agent” for the CIA and the Pakistan-based LeT.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/2611-headley-plead-guilty-escape-%E2%80%98death%E2%80%99-012
Chicago/ New Delhi, March 17: In a new twist, Pakistani-American David Headley, a terror suspect in the Mumbai attacks, will plead guilty before a US court on Thursday, a move that may get him a lighter sentence than the maximum death penalty.
Headley, 49, who was arrested by the FBI in October last year, will move a plea bargain under which a lighter sentence can be recommended on his pleading guilty.
Headley, an LeT operative who had pleaded not guilty to the 12-count superseding indictment filed against him on January 14, has moved for a “change of plea” which will be heard by the US district judge, Mr Harry Leinenweber, Thursday.
He had got away with a lesser sentence after he was arrested in 1998 for smuggling heroin into the US from Pakistan as he cooperated with the investigation in the case. He was sentenced to less than two years in prison and thereafter went to Pakistan to conduct undercover surveillance operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Headley, a Chicago resident, faces six counts of conspiracy involving bombing public places in India, murdering and maiming persons in India and providing material support to foreign terrorist plots and LeT; and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of US citizens in India. He is also charged with plotting attacks against a Danish newspaper which published a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed.
The FBI had slapped charges on Headley and his friend Tahawwur Rana with providing material support to the Mumbai attacks and the LeT.
Meanwhile, the Indian security establishment is concerned that US security agencies may try and shield Headley once he enters a plea bargain agreement on Thursday to escape a possible death sentence. Indian authorities said they would continue to seek Headley's extradition.
India is keenly awaiting developments in a Chicago federal court in the light of Indian security agencies’ suspicion that Headley worked as a “double agent” for the CIA and the Pakistan-based LeT.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/2611-headley-plead-guilty-escape-%E2%80%98death%E2%80%99-012
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