**A US citizen accused of preparing targets in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, plans to change his plea to guilty on some charges, US court officials say.**David Coleman Headley originally pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges to bomb public places in India.
He already stands accused of plotting to attack a Danish newspaper which published inflammatory cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.
The court gave no details of exactly how Mr Headley will plead on Thursday.
Mr Headley and his legal team have been “in discussions with the government,” his lawyer John Theis was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Prosecutors say Mr Headley, a Pakistani-American, made several surveillance trips to India and Denmark.
DAVID HEADLEY
- Born in 1960 in the US to a Pakistani father and an American mother
- Spent much of his childhood in Pakistan
- Attended a military boarding school in Islamabad
- Dropped out of school at 17
- Joined his mother in the US after she divorced his father
- Changed his name to David Headley in 2006
- Made five extended trips to Mumbai between 2006 and 2008
- FBI says he took pictures and made videotapes of various targets, including those attacked in 2008
- Arrested in Chicago on 3 October 2009 as he was about to travel to Pakistan
According to court documents, he passed on information to his contacts with the Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Lashkar-e-Taiba (Soldiers of the Pure) is one of the most feared groups fighting against Indian control in Kashmir.
It was banned by Pakistan in January 2002 amid pressure that followed the September 11 attacks on the US.
Mr Headley was arrested by FBI agents in Chicago in October while trying to board a plane for Philadelphia.
He is alleged to have told prosecutors that he has been working with Lashkar-e-Taiba since 2002, AFP reports.
He was first charged with plotting to attack the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten after they angered Muslims by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Prosecutors say he described how he posed as a businessman pretending to buy ads in the paper so he could visit the newspaper’s offices “in preparation for an attack”, AFP reports.
Mr Headley changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 after he was told by members of Lashkar-e-Taiba that he would be travelling to India to carry out surveillance duties for the group, prosecutors say.