Colin Freeze's direct tweets from the Chicago courtroom on May 24, 2011
Day Two
- Getting ready for #Ranatrial Day 2. Hoping to hear Headley talk about what he was doing on 26/11. .... Starts in 1 hour.
- #Ranatrial Day 2 is about to begin...
- Headley Rana back in court
- H(eadley) stands at attention at attention like a soldier when judge comes in. Muscular man. Rana skinny, in a rumbled suit.
- March 2008 Chicago. Rana-Headley talk. "I told him that I had been asked too look at landing sites around Mumbai...." #Ranatrial
- "I told (Rana) I thought the plan was going to move ahead ... People were going to come from Pakistan... Lasker fighters." #Ranatrial
- Headley often fuzzy on specific details re his conversations with Major Iqbal, said to be serving ISI
- Jist of testimony is DH was seeking guidance from Iqbal (ISI) and Pasha (Army) on dealing w/Shiv Sana. Fwd'd RR's emails 2 them. #Ranatrial
- "Please figure out how we can use this Raja Rege guy" Email DH sent to Pak's Iqbal, and Chicago's Rana. (I may not have quote 100%)
- RR thought he was being brought into Chicago firm as investor. Headley says ISI told him to court RR for 2 reasons... #Ranatrial
- DH testifies ISI told him RR/SS ties good 4 "strengthening our cover" & "thru him I could make contact with military personnel" #Ranatrial
- Headley emailed RR to say the biz partnership could get SS "guaranteed large audiences" if they brought speakers to NY/Chicago. #Ranatrial
- Headley says there was no plot to harm SS's Raja Rege. "That would be equivalent to killing the goose that laid the golden egg." #Ranatrial
- (Maybe someone in India could explain why Pak agents' alleged infiltration of Shiv Sena matters in big scheme of things? #Ranatrial
- Trial is back and back on track ... Headley talking targets now.
- In mid 2008 Headley is back in Pakistan meeting ISI Maj. Iqbal and LeT's Sajid Mir. Separate meetings. #Ranatrial
- Major Iqbal "didn't give me the list. He told me the Chabbad House (sp?) would be added ... b/c it was a front for the Mossad." #Ranatrial
- LET Sajid Mir gave Headley the list. "He add the Chabbad House." (Sp? Blanking)
- Also listed were the Taj, a Naval airstation, and a Shiv Sena temple (Siddibinayak, I think.) #Ranatrial
- Mumbai's Central Train station was on the initial list, but oonly as a exit point for the shooters Headley testifies. #Ranatrial
- ISI Major Iqbal "was upset the Bombay Airport was not included on the list" Headley testifies. #Ranatrial
- Summer 08: Headley, exfiltrating from India, returns to Pakistan for more briefings with Iqbal/Mir. #Ranatrial
- It was September 08 when Lashkar-e-Taiba settles on "stronghold option." #Ranatrial
- There was a three person meeting in October between Headley, LET's Sajid Mir and ISI's Major Iqbal. #Ranatrial
- Oct. 08 Headley told LET has decided on suicide mission. "Stronghold option is where attackers lockthemselves in a building..." #Ranatrial
- "... And fight to the death." #Ranatrial
- Headley used intermediaries to tell best friend Rana not to come to Mumbai in Nov 08. #Ranatrial
- "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
- Headley felt that he "got even" with India through Mumbai massacre. Pak as a whole wasn't, but he was. #Ranatrial
- Think Headley said his casus beli was his primary school getting bombed by India when he was a kid. (Not 100%) #Ranatrial
- 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
- In post-mortem with LET, H learned terror group was surprised by the reaction. Indians, US asking lots of questions re: Lashkar. #Ranatrial
- Cops showed up at Headley's cousin's house in Philly, urging DH check in with a US consulate. LET wanted to know if Rana solid. #Ranatrial
- LET's Mir said the one caught gunmen had "disobeyed orders" to stay at target and work in tandem resulting in his capture. #Ranatrial
- 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
- This was the kickoff of what Headley's "Mickey Mouse Project" A plan targetting the Denmark newspaper that mocked Mohammed. #Ranatrial
- "Casus belli" = latin term for justification for acts of war. My term, not Headley's, FYI.
- Also, Headley was given ****a thumbdrive** of files relating to copenhagen by LET. Dropped the word in earlier Tweet.
- @Indus_v Yes . Headley said he and LET brass believed SS too be "terrorists."
- Back in trial. US marshalls have directed me to sit in courtroom corner with worst mobile-phone reception. #Ranatrial
- We're onto the "MMP" -- Mickey Mouse plot to kill Denmak cartooonist " -- which is less intriguing than Mumbai plot.
- In Nov. 2009 LET gave Headley thumbdrive with JPGs of Denmark cartooonist Westergaard (sp?) and paper's cultural editor. #Ranatrial
- However H's friend Pasha (ret'd army general) warned "Lashkar guys have a habit of making plans and backing off of them." #Ranatrial
- Pasha offered to introduce H totribal area types "who had connections with al-Qaeda." Namely Said al-Masri (sp?) & I. Kashmiri. #Ranatrial
- Q. Why did you call it the Mickey Mouse Project. Headley: "It was about a cartoon...." #Ranatrial
- @romeokardong No. Different Pasha. This one left Pak Army for Lashkar in 2002.
- Few weeks after Mumbai, Headley was in Chicago filling Rana in on MMP.Same modus operandi:false flag immigration firm for recce. #Ranatrial
- Rana tried to "comfort me, calm me down" after Mumbai. Told him what prayers to say, etc. #Ranatrial
- "Dr. Rana said India deserved it." #Ranatrial
- Looped in on MMP in Denmark, Rana said "discussion on this matter had been overdue." #Ranatrial "No coverage, no attack, nothing."
- Chicago consultancy had branches in Toronto/New York. "I asked the New Yoork and Toronto office to remember me," Headley says. #Ranatrial
- Headley needed all First World Immigration branches to backstop his story he was a consultant. Got Rana to print business cards. #Ranatrial
- Headley had a dream about the Prophet Mohammed standing beside an open grave. Asked handlers if it was "auspicious" for MMP. #Ranatrial
- In early 09 Headley went to Denmark for initial surveillance of newspaper for his MMP.
- Ok, catching up: LET felt there was already too much heat to back a Denmark ooperation. Headley directed to go to Waziristan. #Ranatrial
- Envisions another run at Chabbad House with Headley doing recce. Attack would draw in more Indian brigadiers to be killed than in 4 wars.
- Headley doesn't feel too good abot returning to India. Envisions death and incapacitation. writes his best bud Rana with his last will...
- Headley testifies LET felt Jewish women were fair game -- Israel drafts women. #Ranatrial
- "After approaching from behind place the barrel on the back of their head and fire" SAJID said. #Ranatrial
- The Mumbai Massacre gunmen in Jewish centre needed coaching from LET higherups to kill hostages. #Ranatrial
- In May 09 LET is out of the MMP Denmark plot and AQ is in. Headley goes to Waziristan to meet Ilyas Kashmiri. #Ranatrial
- Kashmiri tells Headley an AQ team "coming out of England" being assembled. Gives 80000 rupees. Would be fight to the death. #Ranatrial
- Kashmiri: "Danish response forces would not be as incompetent or as timid as the Indians." Warned siege would be short lived. #Ranatrial
- Kashmiri envisions gunmen shooting newspaper hostages dead and throwing their heads out of the window. #Ranatrial
- Headley goes back to Chicago and says he brings Tahawwur Rana up to speed on all emerging plots. #Ranatrial
- A Maj. Samir Ali emails Headley a few weeks later tooo confirm Pasha's release. #Ranatrial
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