WASHINGTON — The al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba has been actively planning one or more additional Mumbai-style attacks in India, based in part on scouting by a Chicago man recently charged with being a longtime clandestine operative of the group, according to current and former U.S., Indian and European counter-terrorism officials.
FBI and Justice Department officials spent last week in India and Pakistan as part of an urgent tri-lateral effort to head off such an attack, sharing a wealth of information from their investigation into the activities of David Coleman Headley, the officials said.
The new plots, thought to be in the works for months, are most likely against “soft” civilian targets such as hotels or synagogues frequented by Americans, Israelis and other Westerners, according to the officials.
