Was Chicago Terror Suspect Plotting Attack On Jews?

In a story that seems to be unfolding daily, the latest twist involves a book Chicago terror suspect David Coleman Headley carried with him, “How to Pray like a Jew”. Mr. Headley isn’t Jewish. He is an Islamic fundamentalist.

Headley, a Pakistani native whose birth name was Daood Gilani before he changed it, was using the book of Jewish prayer tips as part of an elaborate cover, according to federal authorities.

Now, the reason for the alleged cover may be surfacing.

Headley is under investigation by India’s counterpart to the FBI in connection with a plot to attack Israeli tourists, according to a report Friday in the Times of India newspaper.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is said to be looking at newly obtained leads that the Chicago businessman had conducted surveillance on a popular Israeli tourist site in the city of Pushkar. The Times report states that Headley scouted “the Bed-chabad — the prayer hall of the Jews — where hundreds of them gather every evening for routine prayers.”

More than 200 NIA agents have spread out across the south Asian country attempting to track Headley’s travels the past few years.

Headley and another Chicago businessman, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, are currently facing federal charges in Chicago alleging they were planning to attack a Danish newspaper that employed a controversial cartoonist.

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