I'd never heard of this guy before..........
David Coleman Headley
It was a chilling plot. The plan was to take a holy war to the heart of Europe and attack a newspaper that had published controversial images of the Prophet Muhammad.
The attackers would take hostages. “You shoot the hostages first,” the operative was instructed. “It makes it easier to behead them.”
The plot is chillingly similar to the massacre that unfolded in Paris this week at Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper, where 12 people were killed by brothers believed to be linked to Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.
But the target of this plot was Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that in September 2005 published 12 controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, angering many Muslims.
The man at the center was David Coleman Headley, an American who had already participated in a successful attack: the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai that killed 166 people.
Before the Danish attack could be carried out, Headley was arrested in 2009 by the FBI as he returned from a reconnaissance mission in Cophenhagen. He ultimately confessed and pleaded guilty to working with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist organization behind the Mumbai attack. In 2013, Headley was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
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The American Who Plotted an Attack on a Newspaper | A Perfect Terrorist | FRONTLINE | PBS
David Coleman Headley
It was a chilling plot. The plan was to take a holy war to the heart of Europe and attack a newspaper that had published controversial images of the Prophet Muhammad.
The attackers would take hostages. “You shoot the hostages first,” the operative was instructed. “It makes it easier to behead them.”
The plot is chillingly similar to the massacre that unfolded in Paris this week at Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper, where 12 people were killed by brothers believed to be linked to Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.
But the target of this plot was Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that in September 2005 published 12 controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, angering many Muslims.
The man at the center was David Coleman Headley, an American who had already participated in a successful attack: the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai that killed 166 people.
Before the Danish attack could be carried out, Headley was arrested in 2009 by the FBI as he returned from a reconnaissance mission in Cophenhagen. He ultimately confessed and pleaded guilty to working with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist organization behind the Mumbai attack. In 2013, Headley was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
more
The American Who Plotted an Attack on a Newspaper | A Perfect Terrorist | FRONTLINE | PBS
