LeT's plot to use Americans for attacks in India, Denmark

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Paper no. 3496 10-Nov-2009

FBI Affidavit Against Headley: References to India International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 574

By B. Raman

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the US had filed an affidavit in the district court of the Northern district of Illinois on October 11, 2009, justifying its decision to arrest David Coleman Headley, originally known as Dawood Gilani till 2006. The evidence against him described in the affidavit is based on the interception of his telephone conversations and e-mail communications between October, 2008, and October 3, 2009, when he was arrested and the information gathered from him after his arrest.

2. The affidavit refers to three of his ring leaders in Pakistan----Ilyas Kashmiri, formerly of the Special Services Group (SSG) of the Pakistan Army who subsequently joined the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), a contact of Ilyas Kashmiri, who is referred to as Individual A and an operative of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), who is referred to as LET member A. While the affidavit identifies Ilyas by name and gives considerable details of his background, it refrains from identifying the other two. The reasons for this are not clear.

3. While the major portion of the affidavit is about the attempted use of Headley by Ilyas to carry out a terrorist strike in Denmark, there are also references to the LET's interest in using him for a terrorist strike in India. Some media reports had initially described Headley as a White convert to Islam, but the affidavit indicates that he was a Chicago resident (US citizen?) of Pakistani origin, who claimed to have studied in the military cadet school of the Punjab Government at Hasan Abdal.

4. He would appear to have come to the notice of the FBI in October, 2008, when he had posted an entry in a chat group of former students of the cadet school expressing his anger over the insult of the Prophet in a cartoon published by a Danish journal. Subsequent investigation brought out that Headley hade been associated with the LET at least since 2006, if not earlier, and had been trained by it. He had made visits to India, but the affidavit makes no reference to any role played by him in the Mumbai suburban train blasts of July 2006 and the terrorist attacks of 26/11. He was in Pakistan during the period between December 2008 and June 2009. During his stay, he visited the Waziristan area, met Ilyas for the first time and swore his loyalty to him.

5. The references to India in the affidavit have been extracted below:

Lashkar-e-Taiba Shifts its Focus From Denmark to Potential New Attack in India In July and August 2009, HEADLEY exchanged a series of emails with an individual that HEADLEY later identified to FBI agents as Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A. Certain of these emails are summarized below.

On July 3, 2009, Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A sent HEADLEY an email in which Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A said, "i need to see you for some new investment plans."

On July 8, 2009, HEADLEY sent Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A an email which stated, in part: "What do you want me to do? Where are you interested in making investments?"

In another email on July 8, 2009, HEADLEY told Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A that "I think when we get a chance we should revisit our last location again and say hi to Rahul. "Following his arrest, HEADLEY acknowledged that, in this email, "Rahul" refers to a prominent Indian actor with the first name "Rahul."

Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A replied to the above email on July 8, 2009 and told HEADLEY in an email that "to see Rahul is a good idea coz have some work for you over there too. Matters are good enough to move forward...."

On July 9, 2009, HEADLEY responded: "When you say "move forward" do you mean in the North direction or towards Rahul? Also in the future if we need to meet to discuss anything, do I have to come all the way over there or can we meet somewhere in the middle like Africa or Middle East?"

The same day, Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A responded that "I mean towards Rahul."

On July 10, 2009, HEADLEY sent an email to Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A in which he stated: "I would like to know a few things if you can tell me:1) What is the status with the Northern project, is it still postponed indefinitely? 2) The visit to Rahul's place, is it for checking out real estate property like before, or something different and if so tell me what you can please. Also is it exactly in Rahul's city or different one? 3) How long do you think I will need to stay at Rahul's place to complete this task? 4) Will I have to stay there continuously for a while, or back and forth like before?"

Based on my (FBI agent's) review of this and other communications, I believe that HEADLEY had inquired of Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A whether the Denmark project was on hold, and whether the visit to India that Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack.

Later on July 10, 2009, Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A responded to HEADLEY's email, stating, in part, that: "There are some investment plans with me, not exactly at Rahul's city but near that. Rest we can decide when meet according to your ease".

In an email to Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A on July 16, 2009, HEADLEY stated, in part: "One very important thing I need to know please is that how long do you need me for, meaning how long should it take me to finish my work, in your opinion. And is it really urgent? Before it seemed that the Northern Project was really urgent."

After Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A responded on July 18, 2009, that "it may take somewhere between 2 to 4 weeks," HEADLEY replied on July 19, 2009, that "I think I can manage it," and that he would be available in October. He closed his email by asking "Is the Northern Investment definitely postponed for now?"

Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A and HEADLEY continued to exchange emails through late August 2009, when HEADLEY told Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A that he "will be there end of next month."

I (FBI agent) understand these emails to reflect that beginning in July 2009, Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A was placing a higher priority on using HEADLEY to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark.

(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai. E-mail: [email protected])

FBI Affidavit Against Headley: References to India International Terrorism Monitor - Paper No. 574
 

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Headley's Rahul identified as filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son: report

The mysterious name, Rahul, mentioned extensively in LeT operative David Coleman Headley's e-mails to his associates in Pakistan has been identified. He is son of famed filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, says media reports.

Rahul Bhatt, 25, a fitness freak was a friend of Headley, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago last month along with a Canadian citizen of Pak origin Tahawwur Rana, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on charges of plotting terror attacks on India and Denmark.

According to TV reports, investigating agencies have already questioned Rahul and have given him a clean chit saying that he appears to be innocent.

Sources reveal that Bhatt has admitted that he knew Headley but he didn't know his actual background. He took him to be a foreign national in India on a job. That was exactly the guise Headley had been living under in India between 2006 and 2009."

It has also been revealed that it was Rahul who helped Headley rent a flat near Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai.
 

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David Headley’s arrest pre-empted strikes in India

Praveen Swami

NEW DELHI: Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders were at an advanced stage of preparation for strikes in India when their plans were pre-empted by the arrests of two key operatives in Bangladesh and the United States, government sources told The Hindu.

David Coleman Headley — held earlier this month along with Tahawwur Hussain Rana by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of plotting attacks in India and Denmark — was to have carried out a pre-attack reconnaissance for the assault team, the sources said.

Arrests in Bangladesh

Lashkar commanders in Pakistan are thought to have planned anassault on the National Defence College here — or, in the alternative, take hostages at the élite Woodstock and Doon schools.

The physical execution of the attack, the sources said, was assigned to Lahore-based Sheikh Abdul Rehman Saeed, the long-standing commander of the Lashkar networks in Bangladesh that have often been used as staging posts for strikes inside India.

Earlier this month, police in Bangladesh arrested three Lashkar operatives on charges of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka and the High Commission of India.

Mufti Harun Izhar, Shahidul Islam and Saiful Amin were held from the Lalkhan Bazaar seminary in Chittagong, after India’s intelligence services intercepted phone conversations linking them to Lashkar commanders in Pakistan. Local cleric Mohammad Harun used his cellphone to pass instructions from Saeed to the jihadist cell.

Saeed is believed to have been in close contact with Sajid Mir, the Lashkar’s overall commander for transcontinental operations —and Headley’s controller. In e-mails exchanged in July and August 2009, an unidentified Lashkar operative instructed Headley to travel to India.

Lashkar commanders in Bangladesh have long used the country as a platform for attacks against India. Mid-level operatives often transited through the country. Top Lashkar operative Faisal Haroun — who crafted the 2006 sea-landing of assault rifles intended to have been used in a terror attack in Gujarat, as well as an abortive 2007 effort to infiltrate eight Lashkar “fidayeen” through the Mumbai coast — used Bangladesh as a base for networks whose reach extended across the Indian Ocean rim.
 

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Detectives begin work on mapping Headley network

Praveen Swami

Headley carried out recce for Lashkar operations?

Experts believe Headley or Rana may have generated footage from Mumbai and other cities

NEW DELHI: Early last month, when Federal Bureau of Investigation detectives searched David Headley’s luggage, they discovered a data stick with footage carefully documenting the environment around the Jyllands Posten newspaper’s office — the target of an operation intended to punish the newspaper for publishing satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

A growing number of experts in India’s intelligence community believe that Pakistan-born Headley, or his associate Tahawwur Rana, may have generated similar footage from Mumbai and other cities. It may have facilitated the training of the fidayeen who carried out last November’s tragic attacks in Mumbai — and strikes yet to come.

Later this week, National Investigation Agency detectives, when they arrive in Mumbai, will be seeking to map what many in the intelligence community begin to see as the Lashkar’s most successful covert network targeting India.

Behind the façade of a legitimate business, and armed with a United States passport that allowed him to easily obtain a multiple-entry, long-term business visa, Headley is suspected to have carried out reconnaissance for multiple Lashkar operations.

The NIA will be working to locate Headley’s Lashkar contacts in India — a task that will require weeks of painstaking work. Headley’s secretary, his neighbours and landlords, staff at hotels he stayed in Mumbai as well as the dozens of individuals he called on trips to India will be questioned.

Investigators believe that Headley’s arrest pre-empted an imminent attack on New Delhi, which was to be executed by a Lashkar unit in Bangladesh.

Headley, however, was determined to push ahead with a separate plan to execute attacks in Copenhagen targeting the publishers of cartoons claimed to be defamatory to Prophet Muhammad. He opened communication with Pakistan-based jihadist commander Illyas Kashmiri, seeking logistics support for the Denmark attack. That decision delayed the New Delhi attack plan — an attack which could have pushed India and Pakistan to the edge of war and beyond.

Immigration firm’s role
NIA detectives, who have now been assigned charge of the Headley investigation in India, will be focussing on two core issues: his possible role in harvesting footage in Mumbai to assist in the November 26, 2008 Lashkar attack, and the activities of the immigration consultancy he set up in the city.

Mumbai police investigators say they have already made progress in mapping Headley’s contacts, based on interviews with his secretary, casual acquaintances and — most important — his cellphone records. But, the sources said, the process could take weeks, or even months.

Based on their initial assessment, though, the investigators suspect that Headley could have been sent to India to replace an enigmatic Lashkar who escaped a botched plot in May 2006, by jumping out of his second-floor apartment window and disappearing into the crowds on Mumbai’s Grant Road.

Rahil Abdul Rehman Sheikh ran a travel services firm that funnelled dozens of Lashkar operatives — among them key members of terror cells who participated in attacks in Maharashtra and Gujarat — to training camps in Pakistan.

Drawn from the Students Islamic Movement of India and right-wing televangelist Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation, Sheikh’s clients travelled to Tehran on legitimate Indian passports and Iranian pilgrimage visas, before crossing through the Zahedan border into Pakistan.

Later, Sheikh facilitated the escape of Zabiuddin Ansari, who is wanted for an abortive 2006 Lashkar plot targeting Gujarat, and Zulfikar Fayyaz Ahmad ‘Kagazi’, who placed a bomb on a Mumbai-Ahmedabad train that year.

Eleven SIMI-linked Lashkar operatives were held in the course of investigations into the 2006 plot, for which the Lashkar landed assault rifles and explosives off the Mumbai coast, but Sheikh’s network succeeded in ensuring that the key suspects were never located.

Headley, who was born Dawood Gilani, changed his name before leaving for India in 2006, shortly after Sheikh disappeared. He introduced himself to neighbours in Mumbai’s Breach Candy area as a Jewish-American. Rana, who had known Headley ever since the two were students at a military school in Pakistan, visited the city in April 2009 along with his wife.

The investigators say Headley’s front company, the Tardeo-headquartered Immigrant Law Centre, may have provided key Mumbai-based jihadists — among them fugitive Indian Mujahideen commanders Abdul Subhan Qureshi and Riyaz Shahbandri —passports and tickets to escape from India.

Little hard evidence has emerged, however, on whether the ILC had any role in helping the Indian Mujahideen leadership escape. Staff interviewed by the Mumbai police told the investigators that Headley paid salaries in cash, and rarely came in to work for more than two or three hours a day.
 

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'Rahul' mentioned by Headley(alias Dawood Gilani, LeT operative arrested by FBI) is none other than Mahesh Bhatt ka puttar Rahul Bhatt. It seems he even helped Headley get a flat, they apparantly met in a Gym.

Ironically, Rahul Bhatt had plans of making a movie named Suicide Bomber. :eek:
 

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Two days after Batla, IM men dialled Headley

Bhupendra Pandey Posted: Nov 13, 2009 at 0855 hrs
Lucknow The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad is probing leads that David Coleman Headley, arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting a terror attack in India at the behest of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, had contacts with Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives involved in the 2008 serial blasts in Delhi.
ATS officials have found a UP cellphone number in the call details of the phone Headley used during his stay in Mumbai. This UP number was used by one of the two absconding IM operatives from Azamgarh, Dr Shahnawaz and Asadullah Akhtar alias Asadullah Khan, to contact Headley in Mumbai — two days after the Batla House shootout in Delhi on September 19, 2008. ATS sources said the UP cellphone went dead the same day.

Both Shahnawaz and Asadullah carry a reward of Rs 1 lakh, and are wanted by Delhi Police for their involvement in the September 13, 2008 serial blasts in the Capital.

Uttar Pradesh police first came across the cellphone number while investigating the Azamgarh network of the IM after the Batla House shootout. According to police, the number had been obtained in Azamgarh by faking an identity. Shahnawaz’s brother Mohammad Saif, who was held during the Batla House shootout, later told police that the number was used either by his brother, or by Asadullah.

Asadullah’s father, Dr Javed, is an orthopaedic surgeon in Azamgarh and contested the last Lok Sabha election as a candidate of the Ulema Council.

Sources said that Headley’s call details show he received two calls from this number. The calls were made from Lucknow two days after the Batla House incident. Until then, Saif had not cracked under interrogation. By the time Saif spilled the beans, Shahnawaz, who had been working at the Mayo Hospital in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar, had disappeared.

The ATS has information that Shahnawaz is now in Nepal and Asadullah in Saudi Arabia. Since Headley was “running an immigration service” from Mumbai, it is suspected that he may have helped the two leave India. The Mumbai police are already investigating Headley’s alleged role in helping Rahil Sheikh, fund-raiser for the Mumbai train blasts of 2006, escape to London.

Joint teams of Delhi Police and the UP ATS raided Azamgarh after the Batla House incident and discovered that Asadullah had left early morning on September 20. Dr Shahnawaz last did duty at Mayo Hospital on September 21 and then disappeared.

Arrested IM men reportedly told their interrogators that Shahnawaz and Arif Badr, also from Azamgarh, were recruited into IM by Sadiq Sheikh who had trained in Pakistan. He arranged to send both to Pakistan via Dubai and they were trained at a Lashkar camp, sources said.

Shahnawaz was the IM second-in-command in India after Sadiq. Initially, only these two men were authorised to contact organisation head Amir Raza Khan, the sources said. After the Batla House incident, Sadiq was arrested along with four associates in Mumbai. Asadullah was recruited into IM by Atif who, along with Chhota Sajid, was killed at Batla House. It is alleged that Asadullah planted the bomb at Gaffar Market in Delhi on September 13, 2008.

UP Addl DG (Law & Order) Brij Lal said: “We are in touch with intelligence agencies regarding developments in the ongoing investigation into Headley’s India links. We have gone through records of foreigners visiting UP in the last two years but have not come across the name of David Coleman Headley or Daood Gilani.”
 

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Headley was in touch with Pak army, LeT

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Mumbai, November 13, 2009

American jihadi David Coleman Headley enjoyed a hotline connection with his Pakistani masters, not just the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) leaders but also the Pak army commanders, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found.

Headley's emails give a chilling insight into the deadly terror nexus. He has also confessed his email helped him dupe security agencies for so long. His terror blueprint was all over in his mails to his Pak handlers.

No encrypted mails, no hidden messages but clear instructions to his aide Tahawwur Hussain Rana. His emails never came under the scanner and he got away with murder for so long.

Headley used to interact with his Pak masters using email id mov.monie@ yahoo. The id was used to send instructions to his accomplice Rana from the UAE.

Not just email, he carried on his terror mission through phone, chat and long distance calling cards. He even travelled to Pakistan on many occasions to meet them.

More shocking details are tumbling out while tracking his emails. The American jihadi was also directly in touch with the Pakistan Army.

Rana had sent an email to Headley on March 4, 2009 wherein he disclosed names of his two brothers, Brigadier Mohawat Hussain Rana and Sibte Hassan Rana Moni. Rana also said both his brothers were residents of Rawalpindi.

On March 6, 2009, Headley used both these names and created email id mov.monie@ yahoo using a Chigaco IP address. On the same day, he accessed this email account from a UAE IP address and sent a mail to Tahawwur Rana.

In this email, Headley instructed Rana to get in touch with the Lashkar handlers. On August 28, Headley spoke to Lashkar operatives and told them about this email id.

The FBI is trying to grill Headely on the identity of the Pakistani brigadier and Rana's brother's name. This raises the pertinent question - does the Pakistan Army work hand in hand with its terror factories?
 

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Tahawwur bigger Lashkar catch, feel investigators

Vishwa Mohan, TNN 14 November 2009, 02:44am IST

NEW DELHI: With investigators unearthing more details of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror duo held recently in the US, it is evident that David Coleman Headley's accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana was the "senior partner" and had travelled in India extensively to set up sleeper jihadi cells.

Agencies are looking at exact details of Rana having been in Mumbai in November last year just ahead of the 26/11 attacks on the city. He is the bigger fish in the FBI net and though he visited India just once, using his own name, he moved about freely in the north, south and west. Investigators are scrambling to trace his and Headley's travels.

Rana's travel records, being pieced from immigration data and through an online travel agency Expedia, also indicate that he might have been in Mumbai for "quite a while" with Headley. It was Rana who was financing his associate's multiple trips to India, Pakistan, Denmark and other countries like UAE and was also to play guardian for Headley's family in case the latter died in a jihadist operation.

Headley is understood to have stayed in the Taj in Mumbai between March 28 and 30 in 2007. He returned on May 2 the same year and stayed till May 7. Significantly, Rana was in a south Mumbai guest house in 2008 and flew out of the city on November 21, just five days before 26/11, raising the possibility of his having been a pointer for the Lashkar squad that hit the metropolis.

Headley, a Pakistan-origin person who changed his name from Daood Gilani, discussed how his family was to be taken care of in keeping with a practice followed by the Pakistan-based Lashkar with regard to its cadre.

In a communication to Rana, Headley even mentions how to handle "his affairs including wishes for his family" reflecting the important status of Rana in the hierarchy of the LeT module working out of US.

A senior official, privy to emerging leads, said it was also being probed whether Rana had visited India earlier as well using "some different names or some different passport". As Headley's Delhi visit records show, he had arrived in the city directly from Abu Dhabi (UAE) -- which the terror duo frequented while plotting attacks on India and Denmark.

India will now seek help from the Gulf country for tracing their activities and whereabouts through a letter rogatory. "A team will also visit UAE in due course, once we get all concerned details from examination of the call records, email communication, travel details and accounts of their casual/serious acquaintances," the official said.

Besides locations in Pakistan and India, FBI had provided Internet Protocol (IP) details of both Headley and Rana, which were traced to UAE. Headley had even referred to his plan to meet his Pakistani handler in "the Middle East" country.

Though Headley was being funded by Rana who ran a company -- World Immigration Service with offices in Chicago, New York and Toranto -- as a front for the terror operation, sleuths here believe he himself might have been funded by an entity in Pakistan. Rana's communication to his Pakistani handlers clearly point out in this direction.

NIA, which has been scanning these details as well as records of Expedia, will find the exercise a lot more easier with the recent notification of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008.

The new law will not only arm the central investigators to "legally" track email records of all suspected individuals who might have come in the terror suspects' contact but also help them in framing a case against them before approaching US for extradition. It will also help the Indian prosecutors to use these details as evidence if they are tried in Indian courts. The amended law has provision of life imprisonment if someone caught using cyber space (internet) for terror acts.

NIA, which has been liaising with state police forces for details on Headley-Rana trail, is learnt to have got hold of a number of call details connecting them. While Headley spent nearly a year in all during his multiple visits to India, Rana is learnt to have spent three to four months in one go, traveling the length and width of India -- possibly to meet local contacts and prepare them for future "multi-targets in multi-cities" terror projects.

"All details are being scanned. It will take two to three weeks to get all the specific information. Besides, the investigators are also scanning rail travel and inter-state bus service records to find out whether they visited other cities as well using these modes of transport," said an official.
 

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yes, the investigation is not over and our IB guys have not interrogated headley. but, Isn't this proof enough for Indian Govt to take arm-twisting measures rather than exchanging love letters.
 

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Headley stayed in Mumbai Taj twice in 2007

His associate Rana was also in the city till five days before the 26/11 attack
Mumbai: American terror suspect David Headley stayed at the Taj hotel here twice before the Mumbai carnage while his associate Hussain Rana was in this metropolis till five days before the attack, fuelling suspicion of their link to 26/11.

Official sources in Mumbai said investigations revealed that Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for planning terror attacks in India, stayed in Room 1809 at the Taj between March 28 and 30, 2007. He came back to the hotel on May 2, 2007 and stayed in Room 314 till May 7.

The Taj bore the brunt of the three-day carnage after Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists struck in Mumbai on November 26 last.

Rana, who is also under FBI custody, stayed in a guest house in south Mumbai till November 21, 2008, before he flew to an European destination on way back to Canada.

The sources said this raised suspicion that he might have given final touches to the terror strikes that left 183 people dead, including some American, British and Israeli nationals.

Investigators also found that Headley stayed in two hotels in April last year in Delhi’s Paharganj, a favourite of budget travellers from abroad, and recovered his passport details.

The National Investigation Agency and Central security agencies are probing the travel details of both suspects to check whether they had any hand in the 26/11 attacks or the serial bomb blasts in the country between 2006 and 2008.

Even as Indian investigators are tracing the movements of the two men, the Headley trail took a new turn with reports of contacts between the suspect and Mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul but the filmmaker dismissed the possibility of his son’s involvement in any terror activity.

To visit U.S.
A team of the Mumbai police will fly to the U.S. to gather information about Headley from the FBI.

“As we are also conducting a parallel inquiry into Headley’s terror activities, it will become inevitable for us to fly to the U.S. and seek more information,” a police source said. “We need substantial evidence of Headley’s role in the Mumbai terror attack,” the source added. — PTI
 

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Headley stayed in two Delhi hotels

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NEW DELHI: David Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. along with his accomplice for alleged links with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, had stayed for three days at two hotels in Paharganj in Central Delhi this March. A Delhi police team visited the hotels on Friday to collect his identification documents.

Following reports that Headley had stayed at De Holiday International and Hotel Anand, a team led by Assistant Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Ravi Shankar visited the hotels. While scrutinising the entry books, they found that Headley had stayed for a day at De Holiday International, and later shifted to Hotel Anand.

“He first checked in at De Holiday around 4.45 p.m. on March 7 and stayed in Room No. 205. He checked out the next morning and took Room No. 40 in Hotel Anand where he stayed till March 9 evening,” said an officer.

Headley did not make even a single call using the hotel phone. Nor did he use any credit card at the hotels. Closed-circuit TV footage pertaining to the period was deleted in the hotels long ago.

Police believe Headley had submitted “valid” identification documents in the hotels. A photocopy of his passport (No. 097536400) bearing his photograph showed that he had obtained a five-year Indian visa (No. Z314473).

The same document carries Abu Dhabi and Pakistan stamps indicating that he had also visited these countries. There were several stamp marks on that page suggesting frequent travels.

A form filled out by Headley for submission to the Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office also did not contain much information about him.
 

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Nuke sites put on high alert

The Centre has sounded out all states, especially Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, to protect nuclear plants and installations on the belief that terror suspect David Coleman Headley had visited these states.

The Home Ministry and the Intelligence Bureau’s suspicions that Headley and Tahawwur Hussein Rana, the Pakistan-born Canadian national, who was his accomplice, may have had plans to target the country’s nuclear facilities grew after some maps and documents were found in their possession by the American FBI which is probing the case and sharing information with their Indian counterparts.

All states with nuclear plants have been advised to step up patrolling and vigil around the facilities as a precautionary measure, Union Home Ministry sources said here on Monday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has asked fitness consultant and son of film maker Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul, not to leave Mumbai till such time that investigations into the case against Headley and Rana are completed.

An NIA team arrived here recently and is recording statements of all who came in contact with Headley during his frequent visits to Mumbai between 2006 and 2009, a senior Mumbai police officer said. The NIA has also asked three other persons, who were believed to have been in contact with Headley, to stay put in Mumbai for some time. The identities of the three, however, have not been disclosed.

Home Ministry sources said that the NIA was “minutely” investigating all possible angles in the case it has filed against Headley and Rana. Among the leads that are being followed is tracking down the electronic footprints that Headley and Rana have left, including exchange of emails with their handlers in Pakistan, as well as contacts with suspected state actors in that country. The sources said Headley, accused of plotting terror attacks in India on behalf of Pakistan-based LeT, had visited Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, which have high-security nuclear installations, raising the suspicion that atomic plants could be on the radar of the terrorists.

“The step is precautionary in nature. The states have been asked to increase vigil to thwart any sabotage attempt aimed at these vital facilities,” they said. The country has nuclear power plants in Maharashtra , Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.

Some of the main nuclear facilities are Tarapur atomic power plant (Maharasthra) , BARC (Mumbai), Kaiga (North Karnataka), Kakrapara (Gujarat), Rawatbhatta (Rajasthan), Narora (UP) and Jadugoda (Jharkhand), Kalpakkam and Kudankulam (TN). This is not for the first time an alert has been sounded in relation to the country’s nuclear establishments. States have been repeatedly advised in the past by National Security Advisor M K Narayanan about suspected LeT design on key Indian facilities. Narayanan had then made suggested that terrorist cadres may have infiltrated the armed forces.

Soon after the arrest of Headley by the FBI in Chicago last month, there have been various reports of attacks being planned in India. The US has said Headley traveled to Pakistan several times to meet a leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami, which has ties to the al Qaeda, and members of the LeT.
 

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Decoding the Headley-Rana case

November 16, 2009 16:53 IST

The key to the conspiracy hatched by David Coleman Headley and Tahawwura Hussain Rana may lie in Bangladesh and Pakistan, notes Wilson John.

Who controlled the activities of David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the two key Lashkar-e-Tayiba [ Images ] operators arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago early this month? Was it Hafiz Saeed [ Images ], the Lashkar supremo still roaming free in Pakistan? Or were there more than one handler?

Some important keys to these puzzles lie in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

First key is the Lashkar network based in Bangladesh with extensive links to the trans-national terrorist group, Harkat-ul Jihad al Islami and its several local allies, including some influential political and religious leaders. Lashkar has been expanding its network in Bangladesh for 14 years.

Within days of the Rana-Headley arrests, the Bangladesh security agencies arrested three Lashkar operatives from Dhaka -- Mufti Harun Izahar, son of Islami Oikya Jote leader Mufti Izaharul Islam, Shahidul Islam and Al Amin alias Saiful. All three had regular conversations with Hadley, Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar's Bangladesh coordinator, Sheikh Abdur Rehman.

Harun, who also ran an Islamic kindergarten school in Chittagong, said Saeed spoke to him on the mobile and asked him to target the US embassy in Dhaka. He said Saeed spoke to him in Arabic and gave him specific instructions on how to carry out the attack. Harun had recently visited Pakistan. For the attack, Harun and his associates got 600,000 takas (about Rs 402,000) from Lashkar's chief financial officer, Indian-born Saudi national Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed Bahaziq.

Bahaziq, who recruited fugitive Indian gangster Dawood Ibrahim [ Images ] and Azzam Ghauri to the Lashkar, is a close associate of Saeed.

Ghauri was one of the first Lashkar commanders in India, and a partner of Abdul Karim Tunda, who became the operational commander of the terrorist group in Bangladesh. Ghauri was killed in an encounter in 2000.

Following the arrest of Harun and his two aides, the Bangladesh police arrested three more Lashkar operatives subsequently. The police suspect that there were at least 20 more, both Bangladeshi and Indian nationals, who could be involved in the foiled terrorist plot. Some of them are from Kerala [ Images ] and other south Indian states and work primarily in the textile sector.

Harun and his aides were not an independent Lashkar cell but only part of a larger network which was being strengthened for quite sometime. The first inkling of such a network, incidentally, came when two key Lashkar leaders were arrested in Bangladesh in July -- Maulana Mohammad Mansur Ali alias Maulana Habibullah and Mufti Sheikh Obaidullah. Ali is an Afghan jihad veteran. Both worked closely with HuJI in Bangladesh, training several Indian and Bangladeshi nationals in weapons and explosives.

Two intriguing links can be found in the dossier which project the trans-national nature of Lashkar's expansion in Asia for the past several years. One is that both Habibullah and Obaidullah were arrested on the basis of information provided by two aides of Dawood Ibrahim, Zahid Sheikh and Dawood Merchant, arrested in Dhaka earlier.

Sheikh said there were about 150 paid D-company men in Bangladesh and their associates included former ministers, senior police officers and top businessmen.

Lashkar operations in Bangladesh, incidentally, draw large funding from some top businessmen dealing in pharmaceuticals.

Both Habibullah and Obaidullah drew a month salary of 7,000 takas (about Rs 4,600) from Sheikh Abdur Rahman, Lashkar's commander for Bangladesh based in Pakistan. Rahman has since been arrested in Pakistan, but strangely enough, there is no word on it in Pakistan media. Rahman had also bankrolled Maulana Harun who was working with David Headley to carry out terrorist attacks. Hardly any detail about Rahman is known.

There are two Abdur Rahmans in the Lashkar hierarchy -- one is Mufti Abdur Rahman Hafiz, one of the teachers at Muridke (the Lashkar headquarters in Pakistan), and another is Abdur Rahman Makki, in charge of Lashkar's external affairs, and Hafiz Saeed's brother-in-law. Makki, a fierce proponent of suicide terrorism, has been in charge of organising Lashkar's networks in Asia and Europe.

Another intriguing link is Amir Reza Khan, commander of the Asif Reza Commando Force, a little known group which was involved in the 2002 attack on the US consulate in Kolkata [ Images ]. Reza, like Rahman, is today in Pakistan. The Bangladeshi maulanas told the police they were in constant touch with Amir Reza while organising the Lashkar network.

Amir Reza is wanted for the abduction of Kolkata businessman Partho Roy Burman (July 2001) in which a part of the ransom money, $100,000, was wired to the 9/11 leader Mohammad Atta via Aftab Ansari and Omar Syed Sheikh.

Reza is also involved in creating the Indian Mujahideen [ Images ], the new terrorist group which carried a series of attacks in India in 2008.

The third key in Pakistan is Illyas Kashmir [ Images ]i, a former Special Services Group member who took up terrorism and linked up with Lashkar although he floated his own outfit, the 313 Brigade. He was a favourite of the Pakistan army [ Images ]; the then Rawalpindi Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmad, had visited his training facilities at Kotli, Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

Kashmiri is a mercenary jihadi, offering his services to groups that were in need of expert trainers. He was a key trainer of mujahideen during the Afghan jihad and an expert in explosives.

He had several former army officers in his group, one of them was Major Haroon Ashique, another former SSG officer, who worked with Lashkar operational commander, Zaki ur-Rahman Lakhvi. Lakhvi was one of the masterminds of the 26/11 Mumbai [ Images ] attacks. Headley and Rana were in touch with Kashmiri.

Lakhvi's contacts in the army were Brigadiers Ijaz Shah and Riaz-ul Chibb, both retired ISI departmental heads in Punjab [ Images ]. Shah, a close confidant of former President Pervez Musharraf [ Images ] and creator of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, handled Kashmiri before he fell out with him. Chibb was accused by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto [ Images ] of conspiring against her.

Rana, in his e-mails, had referred to two of his relatives in the Pakistan army -- Brigadier Mohawat Rana and Brigadier Sibte Hassan Rana -- who were willing to help them.

Though nothing more is known about Headley-Rana's Pakistan army links, there are enough indications that a transnational terrorist operation of the magnitude the duo were planning could not have been carried without the active support of the Pakistan army and ISI, facing a serious threat from terrorist groups that have cut their umbilical cords with them.

The attack plan, as becoming evident now, had two specific targets -- Denmark and India -- and one strategic objective: to divert the global attention and pressure on Pakistan's western front and in Afghanistan. The Denmark attack could have come from a Western country while the Indian plot was to be carried out by Lashkar networks from Bangladesh.
 

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Re-visiting mumbai 26/11

The Headley Connection

Did Headley, whose visits to India coincided with July 2006 explosions 26/11, play a role in the planning and execution of these attacks? Were there others who had helped him?

B. RAMAN


"The Mumbai Police and the Maharashtra Government continue to assert on the basis of the interrogation of the arrested perpetrator that only 10 terrorists were involved. The operation involved detailed intelligence collection, reconnoitring the places to be attacked and the final planning and execution. It is difficult to accept that the same 10 persons performed all these tasks. There definitely must have been more people involved in the conspiracy on the ground in India, in addition to the Pakistan-based conspirators mentioned in the final investigation report of the police-- at least performing peripheral roles such as intelligence collection and reconnoitring "ng."

--Extract from my latest book, Mumbai 26/1--A Day of Infamy

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The Mumbai Police, who were all along insisting that the case relating to the 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai had been thoroughly investigated and that there were no more missing links or gaps in the investigation, have been embarrassed by the discovery by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the US that David Coleman Headley, previously known till 2006 as Daood Gilani, a US citizen of Pakistani origin, arrested by them on October 3,2009, at a Chicago airport while he was about to leave for Pakistan, had been visiting India off and on ever since he joined the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in 2006 and had been trained by it.

The FBI was not aware of his LET background, his contacts with Ilyas Kashmiri, a former officer of the Special Services Group (SSG), who subsequently joined the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) and his frequent visits to India from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) till October, 2008, when they noticed a posting made by him in an internet chat group advocating an act of reprisal against a Danish journal which had published in 2005 caricatures of the Prophet.

The FBI obtained a warrant from a Chicago court permitting them to intercept his telephone and e-mail communications. Systematic interception of the communications led to their discovering his contacts with the LET and Ilyas Kashmiri and details of his two visits to Denmark to collect preparatory intelligence before mounting a terrorist attack on the Danish paper and his links with Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Chicago-based Canadian businessman of Pakistani origin, who was running an immigration services agency, which provided a cover for Headley's two visits to Denmark as a representative of the agency. Headley told the people whom he met in Denmark that Rana's immigration services agency was interested in opening a branch in Copenhagen.

What sounded the wake-up call in the FBI was that neither Headley nor Rana had initiated any of the legal and procedural formalities which were required to be taken before Rana's agency could open an overseas office in Denmark. It is this, which made the FBI realise that Headley's two visits to Denmark were not for opening an immigration consultancy office, but for preparing the ground for mounting a terrorist attack on the Danish journal. The FBI arrested Headley as he was about to leave for Pakistan on October 3,2009, with the video-recordings made by him in Denmark.

Interceptions of his communications before his arrest and his interrogation after his arrest brought out details of his visits to India and the plans of the LET to use him for another terrorist strike in India. The kind of alarm bell, which rang in the FBI offices in Chicago, when Headley and Rana showed an interest in opening a branch of Rana's immigration services agency in Denmark, did not seem to have rung in the Indian intelligence agencies when Headley and Rana showed an interest in 2006 in opening an office of an immigration services agency in Mumbai.

Headley managed to come to India at least nine times (according to media reports) and open an office of an immigration services company in Mumbai to be used as a cover for his activities. He also developed a network of contacts, one of which was with Rahul, son of film producer/director Mahesh Bhatt.

Rahul is presently a material witness in the case for a number of reasons. Firstly, he is the only Indian met by Headley during his visits to India whose name figured on more than one occasion in the e-mail communications between Headley and his LET controller in Pakistan. Secondly, when the LET sought Headley's help for mounting another terrorist attack in India it thought of Headley's past contacts with Rahul.

During Headley's nine visits to India, he must have developed contacts with dozens of Indians. Why did the LET and Headley remember and recall only his contacts with Rahul? That is a question to which the Mumbai Police must be looking for an answer. Rahul has done well in taking the initiative in contacting the police and briefing them on how he came into contact with Headley. His statement will now be verified by the police in order to determine whether he has told all that needed to be told. If he has, he will remain purely a material witness. If he has not, he will become from a witness to a suspect. Till the verification of his statement is completed beyond reasonable doubt, the question of the police giving a clean chit to him will be premature.

Since 2003, the LET has been thinking of mounting a terrorist strike in India from US territory. An LET cell in the US consisting of Pakistani-origin people and white converts to Islam was detected and neutralised by the FBI in 2003. Despite this, the LET has not given up the idea of using US passport holders for a terrorist strike in India.

What is new and worrisome in the Headley case is that the LET recruited a Muslim member of the Pakistani diaspora in the US and made him assume a Christian or a Jewish identity in order to infiltrate into India without creating suspicion. It would be important to get from the FBI copies of the original papers relating to his name change in 2006 and his obtaining a new passport under the name David Coleman Headley. It is interesting to note that among the places reportedly visited by Headley in India was Kochi, which used to have a large Jewish presence and has an ancient synagogue. His itinerary in India has had an anti-Indian and anti-Jewish angle.

A perusal of the FBI's affidavits against Headley and Rana shows that Rana paid his air fare for his travels to Denmark and Pakistan. Rana does not appear to have paid the air fare for Headley's travels to India. In Denmark, Headley was staying in shoe-string budget hotels. He had been spending money more liberally in India as evidenced by his two stays in the expensive Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, his visiting a local gym frequented by film stars, his hiring an office accommodation and a flat etc. Who was paying for all this?

Headley's visits to India coincided with two acts of mass casualty terrorism -- the July 2006 explosions in some suburban trains of Mumbai and the 26/11 attacks. Did Headley play a role in the planning and execution of these attacks? Were there others who had helped him?

To find answers to such questions and identify the missing links, the Indian, the US, the Canadian and the Danish investigation agencies should work closely together. Our being totally taken by surprise by the activities of Headley in our territory, which had continued even after 26/11, clearly shows that the Government of India has not been able to identify and remove the major deficiencies in our counter-terrorism set-up.

We continue to be taken by surprise again and again despite the claims of a significant improvement made by the Government.

B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.
 

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Headley, Rana were in Pakistan during 26/11

NDTV Correspondent, Monday November 16, 2009, New Delhi

When India was countering its worst-ever terror attack in Mumbai on 26/11 last year, David Coleman Headley and Tawwahur Rana were in Pakistan, reveal intelligence sources to NDTV.

Headley, a US citizen, and Rana, a Pakistani-born Canadian, were arrested last month by the FBI for allegedly planning terror attacks against India. Since then, India has been trying to trace what appears to be a trail of terror that the two men were laying in India for a new and gigantic offensive.

Records show that Rana left Mumbai one week before 26/11. Headley also visited Mumbai on the nine trips he made to India between 2006 and 2009. The cities that the two men travelled to include Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Lucknow, Agra, Kochi, Surat, Ahmedabad.

More than 20 teams have been formed to investigate the case. India has also asked Canada to share information on Rana.

Emails intercepted by the FBI show that Headley was in regular touch with top terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

India's nuclear plants have been put on high-alert. That's partly as a result of the investigations in the Headley-Rana case. A spy arrested over the weekend at the Delhi airport was carrying documents and photographs on the Narora Atomic Plant in Uttar Pradesh.
 

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Lol........
Who knows if the whole thing is a CIA planned incident?
Every one knows the historic ties between CIA and LeT.CIA might have helped LeT to some extent while LeT took the later advantage.
Its a mad mad world.And we cant trust anyone either be it a friend or a neighbour.
We been having so many issues with US untill the late 90`s.Some clone of rumsfeld might have organized the crime. :D

If PM MMS trusts US dont necessarily mean that I do have to trust them.Just my 2 cents :twizt:

P.S:CIA is a well known architect of such incidents.It could be of american interests that India might go and attack Pakistan right after attack and the talibans in Afghan-Pak will show their patriotism for pak and attack India instead of NATO in afghan.
Then NATO can secure Afghan and declare victory and can pull out the troops waving hands to afghan people.
If one analyzes the relation between FBI and CIA, there been many differences between the two organizations.A itchy hand FBI pulled the strings leading to CIA cabin????? :icon_salut::icon_salut:

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Afghan war is costing hundreds of billions every year.And there seems to be no end in the near future.Day by day the taliban strength is increasing while the NATO strength is receding.It can be a wise plan to drag India into a war with PAK and divert the whole attention.Death of few Americans on 26/11 is not a big deal compared to as many deaths in Afghan.And does US cares if an ordinary indian dies? no way. It will be a good thing is RAW and IB pulls the right strings at the right time.US and UK agencies are specifically known for organizing such kind of highly sensible attacks/incidents.
and unfortunately the CIA people over estimated the nationalism of Indian leader.They expected India go and wage war against pakistan by proving some proofs of pak army and ISI involvement.But our dumb leaders ? did good for the country or bad for the CIA?
 

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Who knows if the whole thing is a CIA planned incident?
Every one knows the historic ties between CIA and LeT.CIA might have helped LeT to some extent while LeT took the later advantage.
I don't think there were any historic links between CIA and LeT. The historic ties were between Afghan Mujahideen and CIA through ISI.

LeT has been Kashmir and India-centric terrorist organization created by ISI. But now LeT has become a part of pan-islamic agenda and is now part of Al-qaeda allied organization.
 

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Rana was fixer, planner, financier

From channelising funds, facilitating Headley’s visits to getting him a Pak visa, Rana did it all, say investigators

Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service

NIA forms teams to trace Headley visits

MUMBAI: The National Investigation Agency has formed several teams here as well as in other states and started questioning several people to trace the footsteps of David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwar Hussain Rana, in India as new leads suggested that they had visited Kerala. NIA officials were looking for an estate agent in Khar, a western suburb of the city, and Tardeo of Central Mumbai, who could have helped Headley in finding a house in Breach Candy in South Mumbai, official sources said. — PTI


New Delhi, November 15

Even as the investigators are probing David Headley’s role in various terror plots, including the deadly 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the handiwork of his accomplice, Tahhawur Hussian Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian national, has started to unravel and appears to be equally dangerous.

Rana, the 48-year-old business man, whose bearded, bespectacled face is being splashed on television news bulletins these days, say sources, was in know of everything. He was a key player, the planner and the man through whom funds were channelised to Headley and it was Rana who acted as the “fixer” for Headley.

Investigators now know that Rana was the one who owned the immigration/visa consultancy firm, whose branch Headley opened in Tardeo, Mumbai. The firm functioned in Mumbai till July 2008 without any suspicion and was possibly used to facilitate the escape of militants of the Indian Mujahideen after blasts in Jaipur and Delhi. Rana’s firm had enabled Headley to travel twice to Denmark as a representative of his immigration company.

It was Rana who arranged air tickets for Headley's overseas travels, including the nine visits to India between 2006 and 2009 and also to Europe. Again it was Rana, who used his contacts with the Pakistan Consul General in Chicago, Aman Rashid, when he attempted to get a five-year visa for Headley. Rana falsely described Headley as a ‘white-coloured American’ and not as someone who hailed from Pakistan.

Notably, the Consul General, Rana and Headley had attended the same school - the Punjab Government’s Army Cadet School at Hasan Abdal in Pakistan. The Pakistani diplomat knew Headley by his original name Daood Gilani and it was Rana who tried to hoodwink the diplomat with the “white American” theory.

The link of Headley and Rana to the Pakistan-based Laskhar-e-Toiba has already been established from frequent calls to suspicious numbers in Pakistan and also their visits. The FBI lists two unmanned persons in Pakistan who have so far been identified as “contact-A” and “Laskhar contact-A”. Rana knew both of them.

Even the FBI knows the importance of Rana and has sought a nearly 60-day extension till January 14, 2010, to file an indictment against him. Originally the chargesheet was to be filed on November 19. The FBI was granted such an extension in time against Headley and now has time till January 1, 2010. Investigators, who are in the know of matters, say Indian officials need time to examine the evidence.

Meanwhile, Home Secretary GK Pillai told reporters on the sidelines of a function that the probe in India will take four to six weeks. “Investigations are on, it will take us at least, I will put it as something between four to six weeks, to complete the probe. Once that investigation is completed, we will know the links,” he said. In reply to a specific question on Rana’s movements, Pillai said he had visited Kochi in Kerala and the probe to find out what he did while in the city is on.
 

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I don't think there were any historic links between CIA and LeT. The historic ties were between Afghan Mujahideen and CIA through ISI.

LeT has been Kashmir and India-centric terrorist organization created by ISI. But now LeT has become a part of pan-islamic agenda and is now part of Al-qaeda allied organization.

There were links.period
Terrorism is terrorism.It was created by US with only one intention. i.e defeat the soviets.And India became a victim only because we virtually allied with Soviets.
Untill the late 80`s US support to Mujahideens was invincible.Be it monetary/training/weapons.LeT was actually a split group of that Talibans/Mujahideens. they raised the banner in 1990 after the Soviet-Afghan war came to an end.A significant part of the afghan Mujahideens have been transfered to LeT under the new banner.
LeT became Kashmir centric only after ISI diverted them from Afghan to Kashmir.
dude,these are all of same brotherhood.Having a different banner everyday wont make them different.Their ideology is same.

Recently a french terrorist,who got trained in an LeT camp confessed about the CIA involvement.
The super power status is simply providing a fool proof cover to the american agencies.

my 26/11 theory relating CIA is just a dart in the dark.But CIA did trained and provided assistance to LeT untill late 90`s.And my theory gains value with the confession of a french terrorist who in his words said that ,CIA officials used to come to LeT camps frequently to check if LeT is hiring foreign people for its missions.
What does that implicitly mean? If foreign people were hired,the chances of people knowing the CIA involvement is more.period
 

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There were links.period
Terrorism is terrorism.It was created by US with only one intention. i.e defeat the soviets.And India became a victim only because we virtually allied with Soviets.
Untill the late 80`s US support to Mujahideens was invincible.Be it monetary/training/weapons.LeT was actually a split group of that Talibans/Mujahideens. they raised the banner in 1990 after the Soviet-Afghan war came to an end.A significant part of the afghan Mujahideens have been transfered to LeT under the new banner.
LeT became Kashmir centric only after ISI diverted them from Afghan to Kashmir.
dude,these are all of same brotherhood.Having a different banner everyday wont make them different.Their ideology is same.

Recently a french terrorist,who got trained in an LeT camp confessed about the CIA involvement.
The super power status is simply providing a fool proof cover to the american agencies.

my 26/11 theory relating CIA is just a dart in the dark.But CIA did trained and provided assistance to LeT untill late 90`s.And my theory gains value with the confession of a french terrorist who in his words said that ,CIA officials used to come to LeT camps frequently to check if LeT is hiring foreign people for its missions.
What does that implicitly mean? If foreign people were hired,the chances of people knowing the CIA involvement is more.period
Of course terrorists are terrorists but you need to differentiate terrorists based on their motives for the formation of so called terrorist organizations. Different terrorist organizations have different motives and goals. Only some of them target India and we need to make that distinction in order to focus only on such organizations owing to scarcity of resources.

LeT's majority is comprised of Pakistani punjabis not the Pashtuns who were the Mujahidins who fought against Soviet Union. That's the major difference. LeT formed in 1990s. It is a banned organization in US, India and also Pakistan. It is back in business within no time under the moniker Jamat-ud-dawa (JuD) and is responsible for 26/11 mumbai attacks.

US and CIA have turned a blind eye on the terrorist activities of ISI/LeT/JeM against India because it didn't bother their security and it is a known fact for a long time. But post 26/11 mumbai attacks everything has changed. US wanted Pakistani army to fight Taliban on its western front so as to prevent attacks by Taliban on American/NATO foces in Afghanistan. For it to happen PA shouldn't be threatened at its Eastern Border by India. But post 26/11 mumbai attacks, India threatened surgical strikes in Pakistan which would have made all Pakistani forces fighting Taliban to pack up and head towards eastern border which will give free reign to Taliban for more attacks on US/NATO troops, which US didn't want. In order to prevent this, US promised India that it will act against and force Pakistani army/ISI to cease support to Terrorist organization working against India.
 

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