Working on a plot more sinister than Mumbai attack, David Headley and his Pakistani handlers, Illyas Kashmiri in particular, were to behead the heads of the hostages and throw the heads out of the window for their planned terrorist strike in Copenhagen.
Luckily for the world, Headley, a 26/11 co-accused who at one stage was planning to fund and execute this attack on his own, was arrested before he could create Mumbai-like mayhem in the Danish capital. Kashmiri’s men in London who would sent terrorists for the attack in Copenhagen did not want to do go ahead because of the increased surveillance and also they encountered some problem with financing for the project, reveal new details.
The details emerged out of the new court documents and deliberations during the first-four days of the ongoing trial of Tahawwur Hussein Rana in a Chicago court this week. Rana, also a Mumbai attack co-accused, has not pleaded guilty. “In May 2009, Headley, Pasha and a relative of Headley’s, Saulat Rana, travelled to the Fata to meet with Kashmiri. During a meeting with Kashmiri, he (Kashmiri) told Headley that he was eager to carry out the attacks, and instructed Headley to make contact with his (Kashmiri’s) associate in Europe,” federal prosecutors said in the Santiago Proffer, which was unsealed this week.” —PTI