American in Mumbai attack jailed

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INDIA, MUMBAI : An Indian delivery boy walks past wall graffiti made after the 2008 terror attacks near the blast site at Opera house in Mumbai on July 15, 2011. Indian detectives scrambled for a breakthrough Friday into the Mumbai bombings that killed 17 people and left baffled police hunting for clues and suspects in the monsoon rains. There were fears that the torrential downpours that have hit the country's financial and entertainment capital since the rush-hour blasts on Wednesday evening may hamper the probe, washing away vital forensic clues. AFP PHOTO/ Indranil MUKHERJEE

An American who admitted to scouting targets ahead of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and then cooperated with US authorities to avoid execution was sentenced on January 24 to 35 years in prison. David Coleman Headley, 52, pleaded guilty in 2010 to 12 charges related to the carnage in Mumbai and a second plot to attack a Danish newspaper that sparked outrage over its publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. He convinced US federal prosecutors to let him live after he was caught on tape plotting the attack on the Danish newspaper by telling them all he had learned in 7 years of working with Pakistani militants. Heavily-armed militants rampaged through Mumbai in November 2008, killing 166 people and wounding hundreds more over nearly three days of carnage in a prolonged assault on the Indian financial capital.


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