Chicago resident David Headley has pleaded guilty to twelve terrorism counts and promised to cooperate with federal investigators in order to avoid the death penalty. Among the charges against him are plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard and scouting targets for the 2008 Mumbai attack.
In other news, a Thai migrant worker in southern Israel was killed by a Palestinian rocket launched from Gaza. In Britain, a Turkish immigrant girl underwent a £60,000 sex-change operation, paid for by the National Health Service.
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Why does he want to avoid the death penalty? I thought mahoundians loved death and longed to get to the mahoundian paradise?
Is this a case of food poisoning jihad?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/mar/17/poison-soup-stowe-public-school