US Citizen Gilani Indicted For 2008 Mumbai Attacks

 Daood Sayed Gilani the man charged in two international terror plots, including the 2008 Mumbai, India, attacks, pleaded guilty Thursday to a dozen counts against him, and now will not face a trial.
Daood Sayed Gilani ,locally known as David Headley, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Chicago to a dozen federal terrorism charges. Authorities said he scouted out targets for the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 that killed more than 160 people, and planned an attack on a Danish newspaper that published cartoons disrespectfully depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Headley is an American citizen and has been in the states since he was 17 (Headley is now 49). He has a Pakistani wife and children.
Mr. Headley has been convicted once before for international drug trafficking. His detailed testimonies of his involvement won him a shortened sentence. Headley’s recent guilty plea to the six counts of conspiracy to bomb locations in India and to murder and maim persons in India and Denmark, and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India, hints at his hope for more lenient consequences. The names and roles of other conspirers have recently been offered by Headley.
Accounts of Mr. Headleys trips to Mumbai before leading up to the bombings were disclosed and how  he videotaped possible targets and used a global-positioning device to help the plotters, who went on to attack the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, a Jewish cultural center and a train station in November 2008.
Many in the press, academics, and national security arena, are intrigued by David Headley’s life story and how he ended up in this disposition. His story doesn’t match up to the average terrorist background. However; recent terror conspirers from the states have not fit the classical terrorist profile. Even Muttalib from Nigeria was from an affluent family and well cultured, but somehow was attracted to Islamic extremism.
The face, and character, of terrorism is becoming diverse and close to home for the U.S. Unfortunately those with the criminal intent and anger to carry out terror acts are using Islam as their validation.