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November 14, 2009 | Ahmedabad steps up hotel security | Ahmedabad (Gujarat): Security of hotels in Ahmedabad has been beefed up in
the wake of reports that US terror suspect David Coleman Headley stayed at top-end hotels in various cities with the aim of conducting a recce for terrorist attacks.
The Gujarat government has directed hotels to take thumb impressions of all guests
and keep a copy of their identity cards. Security personnel have also been deployed
to check vehicle movement in the city. "We will tell the hotel people to take
thumb impression of the customers. This is a new thing. The staff can come to
the police station and we will tell them how to implement this. If they do not
implement it, the department will take the required action," said M.H Vasani,
a police inspector. The FBI arrested Headley, a Chicago resident, in October 2009
for plotting terror attacks overseas, including India. He was arrested along with
Pakistani-born Canadian citizen Tahawwur Hussein Rana. It is reported that Headley
came in close contact with several unidentified leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
a Pakistan-based terrorist organisation with links to Al Qaeda. The National Investigation
Agency (NIA) had registered a case against Headley and Rana in connection with
the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Headley was charged with one count of conspiracy to
commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the United States and
one count of conspiracy to provide material support to that overseas terrorism
conspiracy. |
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