The US court hearing into terror suspect David Headley has revealed further details of a plot to kill journalists at the Jyllands-Posten newspaper for their role in the 2005 Mohammed cartoon affair. Healy last week pleaded guilty to charges as a condition of his plea bargain agreement.
It had already been established that a terror plot involving a truck bomb at the newspaper offices was part of a wider plan to hunt down cartoonists and the newspaper’s cultural editor. The new information, released publicly last week, shows that Headley’s Pakistani contact allegedly ordered him to behead hostages from the newspaper staff and throw the heads from office windows to provoke the largest possible response from authorities.
The American Headley, who has links to militant Pakistani terror groups Harakat-ul Jihad Islami and Lasjkar-e-Taiba, recently changed his plea to guilty on condition that extradition and the death penalty would not be applied, in return for his cooperation. Headley has also admitted to being involved in the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 which killed over 160 people.
Eric Holder, the US Attorney General, said that valuable terrorist-related intelligence was being gathered from Headley. “Working with our domestic and international partners, we will not rest until all those responsible for the Mumbai attacks and the terror plot in Denmark are held accountable,” Holder stated.
Even the plan and intention is GRUESOME.