A Chicago man on Thursday pleaded guilty to charges that he helped plan the November 2008 attack on Mumbai that left 166 people dead and plotted to attack a Danish newspaper that published controversial cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed.
David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American who carried out reconnaissance trips of Mumbai ahead of the attack, changed his former plea to guilty on all 12 charges against him as part of a deal with public prosecutors. Among the charges he admitted was conspiracy to bomb public places in India, which carries a possible death sentence.
