David Coleman Headley is an American terrorist who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for his involvement in 12 acts of international terrorism. He conducted surveillance missions in Mumbai and Copenhagen to scout targets for terrorist attacks on behalf of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, and was arrested at an airport in Chicago in 2009 while traveling to Pakistan.

1. David Coleman Headley (conceived Daood Sayed Gilani; June 30, 1960) is an American psychological
militant. He is as of now carrying out a 35-year punishment in the US in the wake of confessing to 12
worldwide psychological oppression charges.[2][3]
It has been affirmed that Headley made intermittent outings to Pakistan for Lashkar-e-Taiba preparing
while at the same time functioning as a source for the U.S. Drug Implementation Organization (DEA),
however this is disputed.[4][5] Under the bearing of Lashkar bosses, Headley performed five spying
missions in Mumbai to scout focuses for the assaults, which killed 168 individuals. The next year, he
played out a comparable mission in Copenhagen to assist with arranging an assault against the Danish
paper Jyllands-Posten, which had distributed depiction of Muhammad. He was captured at O'Hare
Global Air terminal in Chicago while en route to Pakistan in October 2009.[4][6]