12-17-2009, 12:23 AM
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-t...9027.story
LA-lashkar timeline
Josh Meyer, Tribune Newspapers
December 13, 2009
Chicagoan David Coleman Headley spent as much as a year total in visits to India, living a life of luxury, according to interviews and U.S. court documents. Allegations include:
2005: Headley agrees to become an operative of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and to travel to India to conduct surveillance. He had trained in 2001 with the group.
February 2006: Changes his name from Daood Gilani in order to "present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani."
June 2006: Obtains permission from Tahawwur Hussain Rana to open a satellite office of Rana's Immigration consulting business in India.
September 2006, February 2007, September 2007: Each time, visits India for several weeks, and then travels to Pakistan.
April 2008: Visits India for several weeks and, at Lashkar's behest, makes a surveillance video of his boat ride through the Mumbai harbor. Authorities later say that video was used by the 10 Lashkar gunmen to identify the best landing sites after traveling by boat from Pakistan.
July 2008: Visits India for several weeks, and then Pakistan.
October 2008: Apparently comes to the attention of the FBI after posting inflammatory messages on a Yahoo discussion group.
February 2009 (approximately): Travels to Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where former Pakistani Army Maj. Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed takes him to meet a senior Lashkar official. Before returning to Chicago in June, Headley sends his will to Rana.
Oct. 3: Arrested as he prepares to board a flight in Chicago with Pakistan as his ultimate destination, according to intercepted conversations in which he said he planned to meet with the senior Lashkar leader.
LA-lashkar timeline
Josh Meyer, Tribune Newspapers
December 13, 2009
Chicagoan David Coleman Headley spent as much as a year total in visits to India, living a life of luxury, according to interviews and U.S. court documents. Allegations include:
2005: Headley agrees to become an operative of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and to travel to India to conduct surveillance. He had trained in 2001 with the group.
February 2006: Changes his name from Daood Gilani in order to "present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani."
June 2006: Obtains permission from Tahawwur Hussain Rana to open a satellite office of Rana's Immigration consulting business in India.
September 2006, February 2007, September 2007: Each time, visits India for several weeks, and then travels to Pakistan.
April 2008: Visits India for several weeks and, at Lashkar's behest, makes a surveillance video of his boat ride through the Mumbai harbor. Authorities later say that video was used by the 10 Lashkar gunmen to identify the best landing sites after traveling by boat from Pakistan.
July 2008: Visits India for several weeks, and then Pakistan.
October 2008: Apparently comes to the attention of the FBI after posting inflammatory messages on a Yahoo discussion group.
February 2009 (approximately): Travels to Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where former Pakistani Army Maj. Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed takes him to meet a senior Lashkar official. Before returning to Chicago in June, Headley sends his will to Rana.
Oct. 3: Arrested as he prepares to board a flight in Chicago with Pakistan as his ultimate destination, according to intercepted conversations in which he said he planned to meet with the senior Lashkar leader.