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Pakistani American Mapped All Mumbai Terrorist Targets, Posed as Jew at Chabad House

[Calcutta Telegraph-India] Samyabrata Ray Goswami - David Coleman Headley personally visited every target site of the 26/11 terror strikes last year in Mumbai, carrying out reconnaissance on behalf of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Indian police source said Saturday. Posing as a Jew, he even visited Nariman House, the Jewish Chabad center, in July 2008. Headley, a Pakistani-born U.S. national, was arrest by the FBI last month. Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006, posed as a Jewish American during his Mumbai stay. "The FBI seized a book called How to Pray Like a Jew from him at the time of his arrest in Chicago. He had prepared himself thoroughly to pose as a Jew," a top Mumbai police officer said.
2009-11-16 06:00:00
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