Billy
3rd November 2013, 22:27
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CIA bin Laden hunter David Headley plotted Mumbai massacre
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Asia/article1335376.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_11_02
The operative was highly prized by US security forces but he was a double agent who masterminded the Islamist slaughter in India
AN AMERICAN double agent masterminded the Islamist terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008 while he was being used by the CIA to hunt Osama bin Laden.
When India discovered his role, it accused Washington of having sacrificed Mumbai for the prime target of the al-Qaeda leader.
David Headley, a former drug smuggler, was acting as a “highly prized counterterrorism asset” for America, according to former officers in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, who said his covert career had run for 11 years.
Headley had proposed the Mumbai attack in an effort to win the confidence of the leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a banned Pakistani Islamist organisation with connections to al-Qaeda.
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more here on David Headley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley
The Indian public has followed Headley's story closely, considering him to be their equivalent of Osama bin Laden. U.S. authorities gave Indian investigators direct access to Headley,[3] but some in India have questioned why the U.S. had not shared suspicions about him with Indian authorities before the Mumbai attacks.[4] At the trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, an alleged co-conspirator, Headley gave detailed information about the participation of Pakistan's Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in carrying out the attacks.[5][6] However, in 2011, Headley testified that the ISI leadership was not involved in planning the attacks.[7]
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CIA bin Laden hunter David Headley plotted Mumbai massacre
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Asia/article1335376.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_11_02
The operative was highly prized by US security forces but he was a double agent who masterminded the Islamist slaughter in India
AN AMERICAN double agent masterminded the Islamist terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008 while he was being used by the CIA to hunt Osama bin Laden.
When India discovered his role, it accused Washington of having sacrificed Mumbai for the prime target of the al-Qaeda leader.
David Headley, a former drug smuggler, was acting as a “highly prized counterterrorism asset” for America, according to former officers in the Joint Terrorism Task Force, who said his covert career had run for 11 years.
Headley had proposed the Mumbai attack in an effort to win the confidence of the leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a banned Pakistani Islamist organisation with connections to al-Qaeda.
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more here on David Headley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley
The Indian public has followed Headley's story closely, considering him to be their equivalent of Osama bin Laden. U.S. authorities gave Indian investigators direct access to Headley,[3] but some in India have questioned why the U.S. had not shared suspicions about him with Indian authorities before the Mumbai attacks.[4] At the trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, an alleged co-conspirator, Headley gave detailed information about the participation of Pakistan's Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in carrying out the attacks.[5][6] However, in 2011, Headley testified that the ISI leadership was not involved in planning the attacks.[7]
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