Tahawwur Hussain Rana Trial Case

RT @HumaImtiaz: So Rana will remain in federal custody, faces max 30 years in prison. No sentencing date has been set. #ranatrial

RT @Katjusa: Tahawwur Rana's attorney, Charles Swift, said they are planning to appeal. @fsrn #ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: ...(and convicted on) one count of providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba (cont) #ranatrial

RT @WBEZ: #ranatrial NOT GUILTY on Mumbai count, GUILTY on Copenhagen and Material support for terrorism counts.

RT @rummanahussain: Reporters of Indian descent #Ranatrial are chit-chatting with the judge about his trip to India

RT @PPMikeW: Rotella explains why the #ranatrial is the "most rich, fascinating, instructive terrorism cases in the past ten years" http://bit.ly/j60FZ9

RT @rummanahussain: Federal Judge at #Ranatrial tells jurors to rely on the evidence for ?s on "Pasha" and #Kashmiri

RT @rummanahussain: No verdict yet #Ranatrial RT @malhotraritesh any news on the verdict ? I am just waiting for the update from you....

RT @rummanahussain: Jurors have begun deliberating #Ranatrial. Awaiting the verdict...

RT @rummanahussain: My apologies to anyone following me in the #Ranatrial. My phone died during closing arguments.

RT @rummanahussain: Prosecutors tell jury to look at Rana's conduct, points to how Rana "laughed" when #Headley talked about future targets. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: Defense: #Headley fooled Rana. "Don't let him fool you." Prosecutors are now presenting their rebuttal arguments #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: Defense: #Headley's biggest lie is that he's remorseful for what he's done #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: Defense: " #Headley gets people to do what he wants by controlling information." #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: Defense: Rana got warned like Rahul Bhatt about the Mumbai attacks--"the guys who don't know about the plot. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: Defense: What Rana is "getting is the shaft. That's what he's getting." #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: One tidbit I forgot to mention earlier at the #Ranatrial. Marriage=death and sick=arrest in coded emails

RT @rummanahussain: Courtroom is packed at #Ranatrial. My cell service is spotty. Good news: not much new ground in prosecutors' clodings

RT @rummanahussain: Prosecutors: Rana and Headley are on the "same team." Going through timeline at #Ranatrial

RT @propublica: An Insider’s Look at Confessed Terrorist David Coleman #Headley http://propub.ca/mcSSkJ #RanaTrial

Videos and transcripts of Tahawwur Rana's interrogation/testimony

RT @rummanahussain: Rana tells judge he will not testify at #Ranatrial. "I waive the right to," he said.

RT @rummanahussain: The defense rested #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: Next up at #Ranatrial: computer forensic expert Yaniv Moshe Schiff

RT @rummanahussain: Defense calls first witness #Ranatrial. David Morris, immigration lawyer who knows Rana

RT @rummanahussain: Hard to hear but Rana says he discussed talking about clearing his AWOL status with Major Iqbal #Ranatrial

Headley’s research & Kashmiri’s plan had a small but fundamental flaw: Lockheed Martin doesn’t actually make the drones | http://bit.ly/leg78Q via @Colinfreeze

RT @rummanahussain: Trial is over for the day at #Ranatrial. Prosecutors will present their last witness on Monday. Deliberations could start Tuesday. Ciao!

 RT @rummanahussain: Alleged email from Major Iqbal to Rana: "I wanted to know any progress made on the project" #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Either the judge and a juror or two were concentrating with their eyes closed or sleeping #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: FBI: Rana's cell had #Headley's numbers listed under contact name Dave!--there's also someone on their as Bala Jee #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Next up Pakistani born language analyst with FBI. Knows Urdu, Punjabi and Pashto #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Rana and Mirza's cell conversation as Mirza went to the consulate was secretly recorded #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Mirza worked at Rana's grocery store on Devon for a month in 2009 #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Sorry my tweets may be out of order. Jewish book was found upon #Headley's arrest #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley a map of Copenhagen and Danish newspaper with him when he was arrested, FBI agent says #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley also had a Jewish prayer book, agent says #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Turlington led the search at #Headley's house, which turned up a journal and an exercise book from Mumbai #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: No decision yet on whether Rana will testify but his attorneys say "it's not likely" #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Ranatrial ends for the day with #Headley's testimony. "I hope I'm not going to be breaking your hearts," judge tells jury for quick day.

 RT @rummanahussain: After nearly five days of testimony, #Headley is off the stand #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Prosecutors are back questioning #Headley. It's like ping pong at #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Re-cross of #Headley at #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: LeT would have no problem receiving money or support from a non-Salafi #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Prosecutors are questioning #Headley in re-direct examination #Ranatrial

 RT @gauravcsawant: Input from #ranatrial:Illyas Kashmiri wanted to kill Lokheed Martin CEO. Revenge for drone attacks.+Headley wanted to write book. make money

RT @ProPublica: Evidence uncovered by FBI backs star witness testimony about Mumbai attacks #RanaTrial http://propub.ca/iAciGh

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley to wife: "If I write a book, I can make huge amounts of money" #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Defense attorney: #Headley was diagnosed with personality disorder

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley said if he gets out of prison, he wants to "fix" the wrong impressions the media and others have about #Islam #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: "I feel bad for the methods that I employed" #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley said he surveilled the Germany Bakery in Pune. It was bombed while he was being interrogated #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley agreed he knew he needed to get someone else arrested to get the heat off him #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley once feared Sajid Mir would whack him #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: "My research is more in depth than Googling." #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: Used Rana's office computers to research Illyas Kashmiri's deadly plots without Rana's knowledge #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: Rana allowed #Headley to use his account to have ideological arguments with a foe on an Internet forum they were on #Ranatrial

 RT @rummanahussain: #Ranatrial Day 5 underway

RT @Colinfreeze: Court is done for the week -- and so am I!!! Just learned that #Ranatrial is not sitting again till Tuesday am.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testified he loaned $100,000+ to Rana over the years. Father's cash + heroin profits used to buy video store H l8r sold. #Ranatrial

RT @lalitkjha: Headley says Rana never congratulated him for Mumbai project while everyone congratulated him on this success @ #ranatrial

RT @lalitkjha: Headley says he is no longer proud of what he has done. He was proud of that at that time @#ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testifies his wife Shazia was looped in on 26/11, sent hem congratulatory messages while attacks in progress. #Ranatrial

RT @lalitkjha: Headley says LeT and ISI worked hand in hand to carry attacks in mumbai @#ranatrial

RT @lalitkjha: Have seen Headley and Rana for the first time #ranatrial in Chicago

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley engaged in extremist "loose talk" on Internet military-school old boys forum. Also expressed views to DEA handler. #Ranatrial

RT @lalitkjha: Headley says he posted about Nishan e haidr previously on wwebforum @#ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "The caste/larger family I belong to, people refer to them as Shahji (an honorary term)" #Ranatrial (Paraphrasing)

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley was singing Pakistani love song on secret recording. Rana can be heard saying "look at the swagger." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testifies PM of Pakistan attended his fathers funeral. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: Rana didn't like that he had three wives who didn't know about each other. #Ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: Prime minister of Pakistan came for David Headley's father's funeral. Attorney for Rana says that shows their clout in Pakistan.#ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testifies he returned from Denmark recce with 4-5 "Copenhagen" baseball caps for Pakistani  co-conspirators. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "He just said OK ... He wasn't jumping with joy ... He didn't object." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: (Anyone know why Headley's father was an "important man" in Pakistan? Alive or dead, etc. ?) #Ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: Headley told Rahul bhat not to go to south Mumbai.Sajid & Iqbal wanted to use RB as contact. Rana wanted to make a movie with him.#ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testifies was posing as an ex-(US?) Army Ranger when he told Indian friend R. Bhatt not to go to South Mumbai b4 26/11. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley said his 5-year-old son pretended to shoot a gun when his soccer coach told him to "shoot, shoot" at #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley angered, for first time, at suggestions he's friendly to people only to advance conspiracies. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley says he couldn't get Rana to convert to his Salafi denomination #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Have a look at what's going on a the Chabad House now. http://www.chabadindia.org/ Motto is "Let's rebuild." Thanks @jewishmumbai

RT @Colinfreeze: The two 50-year-olds met maybe 40 years ago in a schoolyard brawl in Pakistan. Headley was fighting, Rana an intrigued and curious spectator

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he knew a Maj Haroon,  gossiped about a Maj. Haroon but "I was not working with Maj. Haroon." #Ranatrial (Significanceunclear.)

RT @Colinfreeze: Q. Views on al-Qaeda? H. "I was working with them." Q. Had you sworn bayat (allegiance)? H. No. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley said he was unimpressed by Ilyas Kashmiri's personality but was impressed by his dedication #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley agrees that Islam broadly bans killing women and children and mistreating hostages. #Ranatrial Agrees hostages ought to be "guests"

RT @Colinfreeze: Kashmiri broaches subject of AQ membership. "He said I should be in touch ... I didn't really respond," Heasley says. #Ranatrial

MT @Colinfreeze: NO. Nothing supports idea  Rahul Bhatt had 26/11 foreknowledge.H said he gave oblique suggestion not 2 B in Mumbai.

RT @HumaImtiaz: Also, ref #ranatrial will have a break from Fri-Mon and resume on Tuesday.

RT @Colinfreeze: (3) In fact, it's not in #Ranatrial defense OR prosecution interest to challenge Headley overly much on ISI ties, though defense is some.

RT @Colinfreeze: (A necessary -- and probably overdue  caveat re: #Ranatrial. It is a trial testing whether Tahawwur Rana knowingly supported 26/11 ...Q

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley's made fake immigration consultant business cards to prepare for Denmark. Listed #s of Chicago/N.Y./Toronto offices. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he put Pasha in touch with Rana Chicago consultancy to discuss branches  in Pakistan. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: And that's a wrap from me from Chicago. Off to sunny DC in a few hours. Follow @Colinfreeze for post-lunch updates

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley replies he gave some sort of head up but doesn't elaborate. (Testimony doesn't at all suggest he was precise ...) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "I guess I didn't do a very good job making a code," Headley deadpans.  Chuckles in court. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says his LET handler came up with Denmark idea, and his ISI handler expressed surprise "it hadn't happened already." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Interpretted it as a sign he would reap an extraordinary religious reward -- if he took out the Denmark newspaper. #Ranatrial

RT @DilliDurAst: +1 RT @UroojZia: Where on earth is @Colinfreeze? Did they put him in the no-signals waalah corner again? :-( #RanaTrial #UpdatesWithdrawal

RT @gauravcsawant: Headley says he wanted to take Rahul Bhat to Tribal Areas, Pak on a trip. Not to kidnap him. Cultivate him, introduce him to sajid/iqbal-ISI
 

RT @rummanahussain: Even after the FBI visited cousin, #Headley still went to Denmark to surveill b/c "This was important to me and I didn't care." #Ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: Jury back. #ranatrial. headley befriended rahul bhat.RB wanted a break in movies.father not helping.was angry. DH cultivated RB for LeT &ISI

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley on Denmark cartoon/ "Mickey Mouse Project's" code name: "I didn't do a good job of making that code." #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Lawyer:Mickey Mouse project wasnt a good name. Headley:Why? Lawyer: Because its direct ref to cartoons. Headley: then I didn't do a good job

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley: Major Iqbal not a religious man, but the Danish cartoons bothered him. #ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley and Mir discussed Rahul Bhatt coming to Pakistan and tribal areas for sightseeing tour, but no kidnapping was planned. #ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley friended Rahul Bhatt, son of a #Bollywood producer who loved "everything western" and had few friends #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Sajid Mir texted Headley in Sep 08: "The game is afoot"

RT @gauravcsawant: Headley names Naval frogman: Abdur Rahman (not Pasha). Sat on every meeting on Mumbai landing site.Headley underwent 50 trg sessions withISI

RT @rummanahussain: Finally saw the pants #Headley has been wearing at #Ranatrial: Dark track pants with stripes on the side.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley decides to use intermediary to get message to Rana. "He wld b able to elaborate more clearly than I wld be able to on the phone."

RT @Colinfreeze: Nov. 14-16 2008. Tahawwur Rana, failing to heed warnings, shows up in Mumbai for biz,en route to Dubai China. 26/11 10 days away.#Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley met Sajid Mir in Karachi on 9 Nov 08. LeT told him they were still working on the plan.

RT @Colinfreeze: Defense seems to be establishing Headley's v. inconsistent on what/when/where/how he warned Rana not to come to Mumbai.  #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Now showing page from Headley's notebook. Maybe the ISI training didn't include the part abt not leaving a paper trail.

RT @gauravcsawant: Headley says was certain in July Mum attack wud happen. LeT had practised for other targets too but at times postponed attacks. #ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: Pak planned Mumbai attacks for May but postponed possibly till fall b'coz of inclement weather. Headley advised rana not to come.

RT @gauravcsawant: Serving Pak Navy frogman (naval commando) helped decide landing site headley says in #ranatrial. no name or no, but military bearing of man

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he has no way of knowing who in ISI Maj. Iqbal might've looped in. Says he assumes LET's Mir has ISI handlers but doesn't know.

RT @Colinfreeze: Q. Do you know whether Maj. Iqbal was telling anyone else in the ISI about this operation. A. No. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley says he assumed the guy discussing landing sites with Sajid Mir was from the navy was from his haircut, the way he dressed

RT @HumaImtiaz: Defense reiterates that Sajid Mir would not have allowed Rana to be part of LeT since he wasn't Salafi.

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley assumed Sajid had an #ISI handler but never saw one #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: (Mounties investigated First World Immigration's Toronto branch office after Rana arrest. No charges, not even visa fraud.) #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley: Used to go to Muzaffarabad and Rawalpindi to debrief sajid mir

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he briefed Maj. Iqbal at Lahore safehouse. Dense hood.  "I can't give (directions to) you verbally ..." Headley. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: Not clear that the Taj would be a target in 2007 #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Rana defense establishing that Headley's Mumbai cover was being a tourist. Fake immigration credentials irrelevant for recce op. #Ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: CST surveillance video was not for attack. ISI's major Iqbal wanted train station as route for exit for terrorists, headley says. #ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley said he stayed at the Taj Hotel in April 2007 with his Moroccan wife #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Swift asking why Headley's wife was covered up when Headley was trying to hide Muslim identity.

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley said he discussed #Mumbai attacks landing site mostly with "Major Iqbal"

RT @HumaImtiaz: Now to Headley's surveillance of Mumbai.

RT @HumaImtiaz: Cross begins with email about Raja Rege from Rana to Headley.

RT @Colinfreeze: And we're back. Headley still in rugby shirt and windbreaker, with familiar gray buzzcut and widow's peak.... #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Back in court for day 4 of the #ranatrial. Much excitement about the cross-examination.

For Twitter coverage. Instead of cluttering the TL of all who follow @outlookindia we suggest please follow @OutlookTweets

Headley NIA interrogation:  http://bit.ly/kKjlnZ | The 57-page sealed US govt's Santiago Proffer made public: http://bit.ly/jQJVIH #Ranatrial

The trial exhibits of May 25 - emails and videos - are up on the USDJ pages: http://1.usa.gov/iwZknK #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Ranatrial done for the day

RT @gauravcsawant: Maj Iqbal came in army jeep.ISI NCOs trained Headley at white 2storeyed safehouse near Lahore airport.Maj Ali was in army uniform #ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: Headley in #ranatrial:ISI gave me training in espionage.LeT training not enough. LeT Int trg:sends men into Ind for surveillance, trail VIPs

RT @Colinfreeze: An 09 surveillance tape played had Headley-Rana laughing whilst talking plots. Rana visibly distraught when H testified re: boyhood meeting.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testifies that Maj. Iqbal didn't wear uniform, didn't carry military I.D., didn't meet in militar HQs. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Defense raised a good question: How did Headley know that ISI Major Iqbal was truly a Pak govt official?  #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley: Helping us open an office in India would also give Rana a chance to be patriotic.

RT @Colinfreeze: (Just skip the legalese up top.... Headley/ISI/LET/AQ/etc its all in the body of the doc.) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he suggested to ISI handlers that he/they could use Rana's Chicago business for cover. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley says he knew Iqbal was from ISI because Major Ali from Landi Kotal who he met in military cantonment introduced them.

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley says he knew the trainers were ISI officers/NCOs because Iqbal called them by ranks like corporal.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testifies ISI's Iqbal taught him cover authentification, surveillance, countersurveillance, dead drops, encryption, etc.#Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley says training happened in streets, in safe house near Lahore airport

RT @HumaImtiaz: Now questions about pre-reqs of being a Salafi to join Lashkar

RT @Colinfreeze: In Jan 06 Headley was introduced to ISI Major Iqbal. Q. Did ISI provide you training? A. Yes. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Defense trying to paint Headley/Lashkar as Salafi Muslims and Rana as a Deobandi Muslim with incompatible world view re: Jihad  #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: After 9/11 FBI questioned Headley after hearing he was talking about fighting jihad.Deflected scruitiny by saying he was US spy. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Defense trying to portray Headley as using Rana for his own gains since age 25 or so.

RT @Colinfreeze: In 1999 Headley returns to Pakistan, this time as an undercover agent for the US Drug Enforcement Agency. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: In 1984 Headley dupes Dr. Rana to coming to Pak frontiers with him. Felt latter's military ID useful in order to avoid searches. #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: David #Headley admits he used Tahawwur Rana for cover as he smuggled heroin in #PAKISTAN in 1984. Rana didn't know he had drugs #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: David #Headley said he wasn't exactly a pious #Muslim as a teen, partying with drugs and booze at #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley describes Rana as his best friend in the world.

RT @Colinfreeze: ! Headley asked why he was arrested carrying book"How to Pray like a Jew.""I thought I might visit synagogues in Copenhagen." #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: David #Headley on hot seat: cross examination begins at #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Canadian admired Mumbai-massacre tactics, U.S. court hears http://tgam.ca/C294 /via @globeandmail

RT @HumaImtiaz: And ooh, cross questioning!

RT @Colinfreeze: Wrinkle #1 is fear that AQ-tied Ilyas Kashmiri was dead due to CIA drone. But he turns up alive and Headley-Rana happy. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Bad moble coverage means bad Twitter coverage.Trial really bogged down in deciphering Headley's inscrutable intercepted convos. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley refers to Ilyas Kashmiri as "pir sahib"

RT @HumaImtiaz: Overheard in the courtroom: "why is everyone in the ISI a major? Don't they promote people?

RT @HumaImtiaz: Ilyas Kashmiri had dengue fever. This is just getting ludicrous.

RT @gauravcsawant: Maj Haroon. Another Pak army officer's name crops up in #ranatrial.. maj samir Ali, maj Abdur rahman (pasha), maj iqbal. Sajid mir maj too?

RT @gauravcsawant: Company=ISI, bala=major Iqbal.investment=terror plan. planning for terror attacks. Spoke of project karachi. No details yet. #ranatrial:

RT @Colinfreeze: Lunchbreak. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: It was also expressed that an attack on National Defence College in India would "kill more brigadiers" than in 4 Indo-Pak wars. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley was overheard mulling list of targets. Temple in Gujarat. Shiv Sena. Bollywood. Copenhagen. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: By Sept 09 police have bugged Rana's car in Chicago. Headley caught saying 2 men he met in England are missing amid drone strikes in Pak.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley's ISI handler, Major Iqbal,broke contact in March."I have yet to come across a coward like him,"Headley gripes in email.#Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: When prosecutor asked Headley why he wanted to do this, Headley said "I wanted a lot of reward from God." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Plan B Headley wrote was "more economical, more effective since we were having trouble w/ manpower and weaponry." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley mulled scalin down Denmark ambitions.  #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: In Summer 09  Headley frustrated with Lashkar for not approving plot to attack Denmark."Esprit de corps is screwed up" he writes. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Bala = Maj. Iqbal Bala's Co. = ISI  "They" = Lashkar e Taiba. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Guess this means that FBI/NSA was up on Headley's phones in Aug 09. H being made to read tscripts of his own (eliptical) convos. #Ranatrial

Watch this space for today's trial exhibits including transcripts, photos, emails etc: http://1.usa.gov/mkioVT

RT @Colinfreeze: And after a short break, we're back on at the #Ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: Headley then went to copenhagen.took videos of army parade. Talked to captain.found army wpns loaded. LeT said throw grenade at parade.

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: Tawwahur Rana said #Mumbai attack mastermind is like Khalid bin Walid---Prophet Muhammad's famous general at #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Sajid Mir was in Karachi with LET's Abu Qadafa on 26/11 coaching attackers by phone."He was watching what was going on in India."#Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: (By the way I'm using phonetic / best guess spellings of tricky/unfamiliar names so feel free to correct me.) #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley: Tawwahur Rana called Mumbai attack mastermind as Khalid bin Walid--

RT @Colinfreeze: Sajid, watching on TV,advised gunmen to use matress as cover and meet Indian forces in stairwell.The Indians "Scampered" H says. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "Pasha's" full name is Abdurahman Hashim Syed --  Pak Army-turned-LET operative arrested briefly by ISI in 09. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley duped LET handler Sajid Mir who told him "that (MMP)project was on hold he didn't want me to do it any longer." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Oct. 20-29 Headley in Copenhagen. Returns to Atlanta.Customs asks him purpose of visit."I said I was an immigration consultant." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testimony begins with blow by blow of MMP, plot assassinate those "I felt to be directly responsible for the cartooons" #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Showing Headley surveillance videos of Copenhagen. This feels more like Headley's on trial.

RT @rummanahussain: Judge at #Ranatrial agrees to unseal the proffer, which details allegations in the terror case

RT @gauravcsawant: Day 3 of trial in Chicago. It is pouring outside. The prosecutors move into court with a cart load of documents.Defence team just walking in

Pakistan Issues Statement: David Headley Not Credible http://www.talkleft.com/story/2011/5/24/31746/0571

RT @Colinfreeze: USDOJ pic of Sajid Mir, Mumbai Massacre mastermind who ran David Headley and instructed 26/11 gunmen in real time. http://1.usa.gov/mxKK1Q

U.S. v Kashmiri (Rana), et al., Second Superseding Indictment: http://www.justice.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2011/pr0425_01a.pdf #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: @AshikOnFire Judge appears to be nodding off at times and the jury appears confused. ... I mean just imagine trying to take all this in.

RT @Colinfreeze: Trial has concluded for today. Lost quite a few tweets at the end there into the ether. But hope you got the jist.

RT @rummanahussain: #Headley email to purported mastermind of #Mumbai attacks: "I have very few friends in the world, maybe Dr. Rana and you" at #Ranatrial

RT @rummanahussain: Love hearing #Urdu words get slaughtered at #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Now Headley introduces Major Saleem Ali.

RT @Colinfreeze: Kashmiri envisions gunmen shooting newspaper hostages dead and throwing their heads out of the window. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Kashmiri tells Headley an AQ team "coming out of England" being assembled. Gives 80000 rupees. Would be fight to the death. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: The Mumbai Massacre gunmen in Jewish centre needed coaching from LET higherups to kill hostages.  #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley testifies LET felt Jewish women were fair game -- Israel drafts women. #Ranatrial

RT @Rezhasan: Headley's plea bargain eliminated possibility of death penalty. Sentencing deferred till after he finished cooperating. http://bit.ly/mnecSr

RT @Colinfreeze: Thanks to everyone who dug out the jihadi dreams story. Recurring theme in terrorism plots.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley doesn't feel too good abot returning to India. Envisions death and incapacitation. writes his best bud Rana with his last will...

RT @rummanahussain: David #Headley went back to surveill three more Jewish centers in India in 2009 for possible retaliation against Israel at #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Ok, catching up: LET felt there was already too much heat to back a Denmark ooperation. Headley directed to go to Waziristan. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Kashmiri wanted Headley to return to India to look at Chabad Houses to avenge Israel bombing of Gaza Strip

RT @HumaImtiaz: Now to Headley meeting with Ilyas Kashmiri.

RT @Colinfreeze: In early 09 Headley went to Denmark for initial surveillance of newspaper for his MMP.

RT @Colinfreeze: (Be great here if someone could post link to Stu Bell's recent National Post story on significance of dreams for Qaeda types.) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley needed all First World Immigration branches to backstop his story he was a consultant. Got Rana to print business cards. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Chicago consultancy had branches in Toronto/New York. "I asked the New Yoork and Toronto office to remember me," Headley says. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "Dr. Rana said India deserved it." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: (Thought:Illinois has just dropped the death penalty.Consequently I wonder if Headley would have sung for the FBI if he was arrested today?)

RT @Colinfreeze: Q. Why did you call it the Mickey Mouse Project. Headley: "It was about a cartoon...." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Pasha offered to introduce H totribal area types "who had connections with al-Qaeda." Namely Said al-Masri (sp?) & I. Kashmiri. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: In Nov. 2009 LET gave Headley thumbdrive with JPGs of Denmark cartooonist Westergaard (sp?) and paper's cultural editor. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Irony alert: Headley's business card showing him as an immigration consultant had an image of scales of justice.

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley wanted his second wife to take a religious course. She's referred to as M2 in emails.

RT @HumaImtiaz: Trial resumes. Back to correspondence between Headley and his handler on Denmark plot.

RT @Colinfreeze: Also, Headley was given ****a thumbdrive** of files relating to copenhagen by LET. Dropped the word in earlier Tweet.

RT @Colinfreeze: (Am mostly caught up now. Taking break. More after Lunch.... Sorry for the Bberry malfunction. Reception problem, nothing more.) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: But the terror plots never stopped. 17 days BEFORE 26/11 LET's Mir gave Headley with a lot of general files on Copenhagen... #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: In post-mortem with LET, H learned terror group was surprised by the reaction. Indians, US asking lots of questions re: Lashkar. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says 26/11 operation was a relief on some level.Was afraid Indian *or Pakistani * govts might get wind of plot, stop it. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley felt that he "got even" with India through Mumbai massacre. Pak as a whole wasn't, but he was. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "I asked Pasha (ret'd army) to advise Dr. Rana not to go to India. So he wouldn't get caught in some...situation," says Headley. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Pasha, his handler, tells Headley that chacha aka Zaki UrRehman Lakhvi might reveal facts abt Headley under pressure as he'd been arrested.

RT @Colinfreeze: "... And fight to the death." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: My Twitter was down for past 40 min. Where was I ? #Ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: SajidMir wanted to set off a car bomb at National Defence college,Delhi. LeT wanted same option at Danish newspaper in copenhagen #ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: #Headley says he met w/Posha in Nov. 2008 and he said hed been in touch w/#3 in al-Qaeda #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: #Headley says Sajid gave him thumb drive w/photos of Muhammad cartoons and of cartoonist to target #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: Mumbai attacks hadn't even been carried out and Headley and Sajid were talking Denmark attacks #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: #Headley said he was concerned after attacks that hed be discovered #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Headley: Sajid Mir told me 12 ppl were being trained in camp outside Muzaffarabad to prep for 26/11 attack.

RT @gauravcsawant: Sajidmir told Headley each attacker be given Indian mobile no in working condition so that Mir wud always be in touch with them.#ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Summer 08: Headley, exfiltrating from India,  returns to Pakistan for more briefings with Iqbal/Mir. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: ISI Major Iqbal "was upset the Bombay Airport was not included on the list" Headley testifies. #Ranatrial

RT @HumaImtiaz: Now Headley outlines how Chabad House was included in target list. Major Iqbal told him it was a Mossad front office.

RT @Colinfreeze: Also listed were the Taj, a Naval airstation, and a Shiv Sena temple (Siddibinayak, I think.) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: In mid 2008 Headley is back in Pakistan meeting ISI Maj. Iqbal and LeT's Sajid Mir. Separate meetings. #Ranatrial

RT @gauravcsawant: ISI wanted Headley to use Shiv Sena contacts to get close to army & navy personnel. ISI & LeT micro managed terror plots in india

RT @natashakorecki: On break. Going through series of emails involving #Headley/Sajid and Iqbal to show he really had contact w/them #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: (Court is really on a tangent here. All this talk about agents of influence reminds me of controversy we had in Canada last year #Ranatrial

For those who missed it earlier: David Headley's full NIA interrogation report on IBNLIVE: http://bit.ly/mGTJhT

RT @Colinfreeze: DH testifies ISI told him RR/SS ties good 4 "strengthening our cover" & "thru him I could make contact with military personnel" #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: RR thought he was being brought into Chicago firm as investor. Headley says ISI told him to court RR for 2 reasons... #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley often fuzzy on specific details re his conversations with Major Iqbal, said to be serving ISI

RT @Colinfreeze: "I told (Rana) I thought the plan was going to move ahead ... People were going to come from Pakistan... Lasker fighters." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: March 2008 Chicago. Rana-Headley talk. "I told him that I had been asked too look at landing sites around Mumbai...." #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki:  When asked a series of ques about whether he relayed Mumbai scouting/trip to Rana, Headley says "I did." #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: After 2008 Mumbai trip, Headley again debriefs Iqbal (ISI) and Lashkar. They like his landing recommendtn #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: It was Headley who found landing site that was used in terror plot. An area "where fishermen resided," west tip of Mumbai #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: That's it for the trial today. I'll be back tomorrow at 930 am Chicago time.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he told Rana he had been tasked to visit nuke plant once. Rana is said to have replied there's an IndoPak treaty ... #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he told Rana that LET's e-foot styrofoam moockup of the Taj was a "terrible" mockup. Rana laughed. Allegedly. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: In spring 08 Headley says he gave Rana lowdown on Mumbai plan. "That seems to a shift from the original plan" R. "Yes it was," H #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley seems to be a man without any emotion or contrition. Very calm factual and terse . "I recommended bringing ordinance," etc.

RT @Colinfreeze: ISI Major Iqbal's email address was apparently chaudherykhan@yahoo.com. Used a NYC mobile too (646 area code.) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: There was also a plan to ship in extra weapons/bombs in Mumbai, stash it for a future group, Headley says. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley says he was told to visit the BhaBha Nuclear Research Centre in India by Maj. Iqbal.

RT @natashakorecki: David Headley: handlers gave him GPS. "Any location that I wanted to save on that device, I should save." On land and ocean. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Trial expected to expose links between Pakistani spy service and Mumbai attack http://t.co/nB7PRZB /via @globeandmail @colinfreeze 

RT @Colinfreeze:  Bomb sniffing German shepherd at entrance of Chicago court where Tahawwur #Rana is going on trial this am... I'll be Tweeting. 

RT @Colinfreeze:  About 50 reporters assembled for Chicago court media briefing prior to the opening today's #Rana trial. http://tgam.ca/C1ky

RT @Colinfreeze: Finally inside #Ranatrial in Chicago. Tight security. US Marshals briefed media re:protocol. Things will happen soon ... http://tgam.ca/C1ky

RT @Colinfreeze: Rana enters nodding at family, some in hijabs. He's much thinner, his hair whiter than I recall seeing him, in court 1+ year ago. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Jury enters. Multicultural cross-section of working class Chicago. How will lawyers argue the murky, twisty Mumbai plot to them? #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Prosecutors make it simple. This is a case about two terrorist plots. One that succeeded (Mumbai) on that failed (Denmark). #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Prosecutor to jurors: "You'll hear from David Headley... He's gonna give a rare insider's account of planning these atrocious attacks."

RT @Colinfreeze: Prosecutor: Tahawwur Rana was David Headley's "best friend in the world." (@ProPublica reports today DH gave TR big big loan.) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: USDOJ tells jurors of key figure: Major Iqbal (MI). "Headley understood MI to be an officer in Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate..."

RT @Colinfreeze: USDOJ: ISI's Major Iqbal and terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba trained Headley tasked him with Mumbai recce of Taj/ trains harbour etc #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: USDOJ: Rana was warned to stay away from Mumbai.Afterward, he was heard saying dead gunmen "should get Pakistan's highest military honour."

RT @Colinfreeze: USDOJ: Pakistan's Consul General in Chicago was a "classmate" of Rana/Headley. They duped him to get visas.

RT @Colinfreeze: USDOJ: When Lashkar wouldn't fund Denmark plot, Rana/Headley turned to al-Qaeda aligned Ilyas Kashmiri. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: USDOJ opening ends. Jurors have been given a War-and-Peace-sized cast of shady characters. Rana smiles and nods at family. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Awaiting Rana's defence. USDOJ concluded with "not every player carries a weapon." Terrorist supporters "equally as critical." #RanaTrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Please read this moving account of the Mumbai Massacre from Canadian survivor Helen Connolly. http://tgam.ca/C1qo #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Defence begins: "David Headley is a master manipulator who made a fool of Doctor Rana." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Defence:"Headley was living multiple lives with multiple people and he was very good at it." #Ranatrial (3 wives & wrking 4 ISI/LeT/USDEA!!)

RT @Colinfreeze: Defence: Rana was a model student at Pakistan Military boarding school. Classmate Headley flunked out. #Ranatrial

Defence: Best buds. Rana put his house when Headley got busted for smuggling heroin in 1990s.Headley later loaned Rana $100,000. #Ranatrial

Rana's bio: Star Student. Pak Army doctor. Served in first Gulf War w/ coalition. Gets altitude sick when assigned to mountains. #Ranatrial

... Rana goes to Germany to heal, goes AWOL. Immigrates to Canada. Moves to Chicago to start businesses. #Ranatrial

Defence paints Rana as Headley's dupe. Relies on Rana's travels to India during Mumbai Massacre as proof he was not in the loop. #Ranatrial

Jurors look shellshocked. Trying to absorb twisty roles of Rana/Headley/Iqbal/Kasmiri/LeT/ISI/USDEA/Pasha/Mumbai/Denmark/etc. #Ranatrial

Defence opening is over. First witness -- likely David Headley -- expected after a break. #Ranatrial

David Headley takes a seat in the witness box and exchanges a meaningful look with his former best friend ... #Ranatrial

Headley doesn't faintly resemble a South Asian. Only vaguest traces of an accent speak to his Pakistani heritage

Headley-Rana shared quarters in Pakistani miltary boarding school. Students used to talk about India/Indians there... #Ranatrial

Headley: "I disliked them (Indians). Dismembered Pakistan. ... My junior school was bombed (in 71 war)" etc. #Ranatrial

Headley lived in Lahore in 2000 when he first made contact with Lashkar-e-Taiba. "I went to a meeting. I listened to speeches." #Ranatrial

LeT head gave a speech at a house with 200+ people. "He said one second spend conducting jihad was superior to 100 years praying."#Ranatrial

Headley says LeT wages jihad to avenge civilian deaths and to force India to comply with UN resolutions re: Kashmir. #Ranatrial

Why does LeT wage Jihad? "They felt it was an obligation," Headley says. All LeT members are Salafis, he says.#Ranatrial.

Why does LeT wage Jihad? "They felt it was an obligation," Headley says. All LeT members are Salafis, he says.#Ranatrial

Headley graduated through a series of training camps. First, Koranic studies. Then small arms training. AK47s etcs. ...#Ranatrial

Headley then learned spy and commando techniques. Deap drops. Safehouses. Hostage rescue. Breaching. Etc. #Ranatrial

Headley wanted to fight Indians in Kashmir but "I was told they (LET) would find something better and more suitable for me."

By 2003 Headley attended LeT lunches with LeT Leader Hafez Saeed and operations commander "Zeki"... #Ranatrial

Headley suggested LeT sue US govt for designating it a terror org. LeT leaders Zeki said "he would have to consult with ISI..."

"These groups operate under the umbrella of the ISI ... They coordinate with each other.": Headley #Ranatrial

Headley says he changed his name in 2005 so "nobody would be able to tell I was a Muslim or a Pakistani." Says he briefed LeT. #Ranatrial

"Pasha" -- Headley accomplice -- was a Pakistani Makor retired early after he refused to seal off the Tora Bora border in 02 (!) #Ranatrial

Major

Headley was arrested near Peshawar in 2005. "I said I was Pakistani they didn't believe me. They thought I was a foreigner." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: An ISI figure sprung Headley, and put him in touch with "Major Iqbal" (alleged co-conspirator) for the first time. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Lunch break! (Phew. Hello to all my hundreds of new friends in India.)

RT @Colinfreeze: LET's original plan was to land the gunmen in boats at The Gateway of India landmark. Headley nixed that. Unfeasible and unsafe. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: LET showed Headley videos of 02 anti-Muslim mob violence in Gujarat; hundreds slain. USDOOJ: Did it motivate your jihad? H: Yes. #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: Lashkar handler told Headley of Mumbai friends "don't really make them your friends in you're heart...they are enemies." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley told Maj. Iqbal / Sajid Mir he had struck out on acquiring Taj conference schedules. "No big deal." Forked over more videos.

RT @Colinfreeze: Rana "helped me get my (5 year) visa," Headley says. (Despite posing as an immi consultant, Headley never got anyone a visa) #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: In May 07 Headley's one year visa toooo India expired. He went back to Chicago got a 5-year visa. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: ***big*** deal

RT @Colinfreeze: May 2007 -- Headley returns to Pakistan. Gives new Taj video to Major Iqbal. "I briefed him ...I told about meeting Raja Rege..." #Ranatrial

[Raja Rege] Shiv Sena’s Rajram Rege Some context here: http://bit.ly/k1kDxS

RT @Colinfreeze: Before break Headley said he had gotten to know Shiv Sena figures in a bid to "get friendly with their leadership." Spy basically #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: (Anyone know how I spell the name of a rightwing Indian group that a "Raja Rege" does PR for?)

RT @HumaImtiaz: Also, startling how Headley keeps saying Zaki sahab and Hafiz Saeed sahab. Deference and respect still there.

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley's ISI and LET handlers BOTH told him to recce 2nd floor of Taj Hotel. Why? "Defence contractors and scientists" met there #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Rana was financially beholden to Headley at time of the conspiracy. Owed him up to $50,000 at the time from a 2001 era debt. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: What happened when clients turned up at the Mumbai consultancy? "I sometimes spoke to them myself. ... #Ranatrial.

RT @Colinfreeze: In 06 Headley tells Rana of ISI $ backing. "I told him that Major Iqbal would be providing me with $25,000...." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "I was instructed too take general video of the city (Mumbai) .... I took many many hours.". Headley now being shown pix of Taj. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Setting up Mumbai firm"I explained to him I had been drafted, as it were, by the ISI, ... But I still had contacts with Lashkar." #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley's LeT handlers told him to "prostrate lightly" during prayers lest he get a mihrab (forehead scar)  and blow his cover. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: Headley and Maj. Iqbal conspired to radicalize Rana. Gave him Salafi teachings, Jihad tapes, to enlist his help, Headley says. #Ranatrial

RT @Colinfreeze: "He thought it was very suitable for the work he wanted me to do," said Headley. He told LET handlers he was now with ISI too  #Ranatrial

RT @natashakorecki: Pakistani intelligence helped terror group: star witness in Mumbai trial - Chicago Sun-Times http://bit.ly/kokNAX
 

Pro Publica: David Coleman Headley a Pakistani-American businessman and former DEA informant, will be the star witness against Tahawwur Rana of Chicago, his boyhood friend and alleged accomplice in the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai. Opening arguments are set for Monday in a trial that has drawn international attention because Headley's testimony could reinforce allegations that Pakistan plays a double game in the fight against terrorism.

After he began training with Lashkar, he joked with his third wife, a New York makeup artist, that their pet dog could be a good "jihadi dog," according to a close associate. Hard-core extremists shun dogs because they see them as un-Islamic and unclean.