Headley is second biggest FBI bust of the year

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Dec 29 (PTI) The arrest of Pakistani-American
LeT operative David Coleman Headley, that busted an LeT plot
to carry out terror strikes in India, has been classified by
the FBI as its second biggest case for the year 2009.

The Headley case figured at number two in the 10 biggest
cases of the year in a list in which the case of two young
American extremists was placed on the top.
"The threat posed by extremists is real and it continues
to morph and evolve in new and dangerous ways. We had our
hands full during the year, from heading off potential plots
on US soil to identifying Americans being recruited to wage
jihad overseas," the FBI said in its statement.
Headley was arrested by the FBI in October along with his
school-mate and friend Tahawwur Hussein Rana on charges of
planning terrorist attacks in India and Denmark.
He has now also been charged with being involved in the
Mumbai terror attack in November 2008, which killed more than
170 people including six US nationals.
At the top was the case of the 'Jihadists of Georgia' in
which the FBI busted a potential terror plot by two young
Americans Ehsanul Islam Sadequee and Syed Haris Ahmed.
"Their story is indicative of both the evolving homegrown
extremist threat and the FBI's post 9/11 intelligence-driven
investigations," it said. (MORE) PTI LKJ
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