US prosecutors on Monday unveiled the names of four additional Pakistani conspirators charged with carrying out the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks and plotting other terrorist actions in India and Denmark. None of the men are in US custody and a spokesman for the US attorney’s office declined to say whether the US government would be seeking their extradition or even knows their whereabouts.
The US has been prosecuting a case against the conspirators after arresting Pakistani-American David Headley in 2009. The conspirators named in a superseding indictment are: Sajid Mir, who was described as a “handler” in the banned Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Mazhar Iqbal, a Laskar “commander”, Abu Qahafa, who trained the attackers in combat for Lashkar, and an individual known only as “Major Iqbal” (hereafter “Major Iqbal”), who allegedly “participated in planning and funding attacks carried out by Lashkar”.
They were each charged with six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of US citizens in India and one count of conspiracy to murder and maim in India. Three of them – Mir, Abu Qahafa and Mazhar Iqbal – were charged with conspiracy to bomb public places in India and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism in India.
