Breaking down the tale of the underpants bomber

David Headley, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, was arrested by the FBI last October for allegedly conspiring to carry out violent acts in Denmark against the newspaper that published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.

Headley, a resident of Chicago, is also in the headlights of Indian law enforcers, who suspect he played a role in the attacks on civilians in Mumbai, India, last year that resulted in 166 deaths.

But there is a far larger ball of intrigue that begins to unwind once you begin to pull on the Headley string.

In fact, Headley; the Jordanian doctor [Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi] who on Dec. 30, 2009, blew up himself and half a dozen CIA employees in Khost, Afghanistan; and the recent Nigerian underwear bomber [Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab] all appear to be connected through a pair of militant Pakistanis aligned with the Taliban and Al Qaeda — both working out of the Waziristan province in Pakistan.

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