Ex-Philly-ite gets 35 yrs. in terror case
CHICAGO - David Coleman Headley - son of the late Serrill Headley, onetime owner of the Khyber Pass bar, in Old City - was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in prison for helping to plan a deadly attack in 2008 in Mumbai, India, in which 160 people died, including children.
CHICAGO -
David Coleman Headley - son of the late Serrill Headley, onetime owner of the Khyber Pass bar, in Old City - was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in prison for helping to plan a deadly attack in 2008 in Mumbai, India, in which 160 people died, including children.
Others victimized by the attack, which has been called India's 9/11, said that they were disturbed and upset that Headley, who cooperated with authorities, did not get the maximum life sentence that he faced. With credit for good behavior, the 52-year-old Headley could walk out of prison before he turns 80.
SANAA, YEMEN - Al Qaeda's No. 2 in Yemen, Saeed al-Shihri, died of wounds suffered in a U.S. drone attack in October in southern Yemen, the country's official news agency and a security official said Thursday.
WASHINGTON - North Korea's plan to conduct a third nuclear test is "needlessly provocative" and will only increase its isolation, the White House said Thursday, as the U.S. expanded its financial sanctions against the north Asian country. North Korea's National Defense Commission said Thursday that its long-range rockets are designed to carry warheads aimed at striking the United States.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Rhode Island House has overwhelmingly passed legislation to allow gay couples to marry. The bill now moves to the Senate, where supporters and opponents say its fate is difficult to predict. Rhode Island is now the only state in New England that doesn't allow same-sex couples to wed.
- Daily News wire services