The Curious Case of Daood Gilani alias David Headley & co

[SSridhar]

The faked phone call from Pranab Mukherjee to Zardari . . .

That came from the jailed Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.

[Pranav]

The faked phone call from Pranab Mukherjee to Zardari . . .

That came from the jailed Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.

As per an unsourced report in a TSP newspaper.

Sheikh is a relatively low level entity, in the Headley class. A young British-Paki sounds rather different from an aged Bengali gentleman. Also, the caller ID was apparently spoofed.

Would Sheikh have the initiative and the imagination and the finesse and the motive to pull it off?

I am not satisfied that there isn't more to it. Keeping the file open until there is more data.

[SSridhar]

Pranav, I am not sure what you are trying to say.

Omar Saeed Sheikh had very close ISI & jihadi contacts, many say he was also a double agent (having worked for MI6). The Brits are more careful in concealing their tracks. It would be no surprise therefore if it was true he made the call to Zardari.

[sum]

Hadnt one of the columns by Indian ex-intel person mentioned that Sheikh was visited in Tihar jail by British embassy folks, esp the "intel types" quite regularly?

Omar Sheikh was definitely no small fry even within the UQ intel setup...

[Pranav]

Pranav, I am not sure what you are trying to say.

Paks may be mad dogs, but there could also be western interests egging them on with the goal of setting off a conflagration.

If we believe that unsourced Pakistani news report, Sheikh heard the news, then decided by himself to escalate the situation by deception, was able to spoof his caller ID to make the call look like it was coming from the External Affairs ministry in Delhi, and also, despite being a relatively young Brit-Paki, successfully imitated Pranab's strong Bengali accent while talking to Pak officials and Zardari. All this from inside his prison cell.

Maybe true. Maybe there is more to it.

[abhishek_sharma]

D.E.A. Deployed Mumbai Plotter Despite Warning

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world ... error.html

[abhishek_sharma]

^ If some media folks are reading the article posted above, then they should ask about it in the press conference today.

[Theo_Fidel]

It is obvious that the US deliberately ignored all this deluge of information because they knew who Headley was.

It don't think this is true. Nothing deliberate about it. I don't even think they were/are aware that this stuff has consequences for India and others.

For them, Indian lives were of absolutely no concern so long as he was able to give them information necessary to save American (followed by other Western) lives.

This is true but not in the way you think. He didn't even have to give them info. To most Americans India and Pakistan are crazies just waiting to nuke each other. The only thing keeping them apart is America the brave. That is the sum total of the political understanding. Everything else you hear is mumbo jumbo that they whisper because they have to.

[ramana]

There was London Times article on DCH that was posted in some thread. Am looking for it to posted in this thread for completeness.

[ramana]

Telegraph reports:

Headley warnings that went unheeded

Headley warnings that went unheeded

Washington, Nov. 8: American authorities sent David Coleman-Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them in Pakistan months after the 9/11 attacks, despite a warning that he sympathised with radical Islamic groups, according to court records and interviews.

Not long after Headley arrived there, he began training with terrorists, eventually playing a key role in the 26/11 attacks that left 164 people dead in Mumbai.

The October 2001 warning was dismissed, the authorities said, as the ire of a jilted girlfriend and for lack of proof. Less than a month later, those concerns did not come up when a federal court in New York granted Headley an early release from probation so that he could be sent to work for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Pakistan. It is unclear what Headley was supposed to do in Pakistan for the Americans.

Yesterday, while President Obama was visiting India, he briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the status of his administration’s investigation of Headley, including the failure to act on repeated warnings that he might be a terrorist.

The director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr, began an investigation into Headley’s government connections after reports last month that two of the former drug dealer’s former wives had gone to American authorities between 2005 and 2008, before the Mumbai attacks, to say they feared he was plotting with terrorists.

An examination of Headley’s story shows that his government ties ran far deeper and longer than previously known. One senior American official knowledgeable about the case said he believed that Headley was a DEA informant until at least 2003, meaning that he was talking to American agencies even as he was learning to deal with explosives and small arms in terrorist training camps.

Fuller details of how the government handled the matter were provided to The Times by officials who did not want to be quoted discussing a continuing inquiry.

They disclosed that the FBI actually talked to Headley about the girlfriend, and he told them she was unreliable. They said that while he seemed to have a philosophical affinity for some groups, there was no evidence that he was plotting against the US. Also influencing the handling of the case, they said, was that he had been a long-time informant.

The Indian government has been outspoken in its concerns that the US overlooked repeated warnings about Headley’s terrorist activities. Bruce . Riedel, a terrorism expert at the Brookings Institution and a former CIA officer, said the Indians were right to ask: “‘Why weren’t alarms screaming?’”

American authorities have not disclosed what happened after Headley resumed his role as an informant. But in December 2001, the same month that Headley departed for Pakistan, the US designated the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Toiba as a terrorist organisation. Less than two months later — in February 2002 — Headley began training with the group on “the merits of waging jihad”.

I think his job was to infiltrate the L-e-T as he had earlier contacts with them in his earlier phase. The interesting thing is how did the L-e-T /ISI trust him despite his known conviction and parole in US. IOW why did they think he wasn't a double agent? Was it his connection to high and mighty in TSP society? Looks like he was low rank courier to US for the TSP during the 80s. Was he carrying his own quota on the side when he got arrested?

[Lalmohan]

most likely the ISI discovered him as an US agent and used the lure of ummah and jihad to turn him - essentially into a double agent. he fed his dea masters info that the isi wanted spread and the isi used his international access for their own recon purposes. he is also a pawn, not the mastermind - but a smarter one than the kasab footsoldier types. he is one of those 'taqia-blenders'/clean-skin operatives - who can pass unnoticed through airports and hotels under the eyes of the watchers. he enjoyed his glam life style, well funded by two agencies. if you're a small time hood and loser getting paid to do drugs and chase chicks around the world - why wouldn't you?

[krisna]

Mumbai attacks: Now, US spy chief says India lying

Contrary to what Indian govt says, the US indicated India was warned well on time about Mumbai attacks and could have prevented Kasab and co from going on a killing spree in the middle of the metropolis.

The Indian govt, on the other hand, says the US is to blame as it failed to connect the dots on David Headley, the man who checked out and red flagged the targets.
The United States did not provide information to India on David Headley before 26/11, as intelligence inputs it had about the Mumbai terror plotter was not enough to sufficiently establish his role in planning terrorist attack there, America's spy chief has said.

However, more importantly, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), James R Clapper, in a statement said that the US did provide information to India about Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) threat to several targets in Mumbai between June and September 2008.

The review finds that while some information relating to Headley was available to United States government officials prior to the Mumbai attacks, under the policies and procedures that existed at the time, it was not sufficiently established that he was engaged in plotting a terrorist attack in India."
"Therefore, the United States government did not pass information on Headley to the Indian government prior to the attacks," he said.

[SSridhar]

Headley got in to trouble because of his kids

"On a summer day last year, Headley, like many fathers, took his children to a Chicago park. There, he ran his children through military drills, including manoeuvres such as rolling into a shooting position," a report in the Chicago Tribune said, quoting the officer.

The manoeuvres had caught the attention of a Chicago police official who, like others in his department, was being trained to be more alert and to document suspicious activities. "At the park, the officer did exactly that," the report said, adding "the officer also took note of the fact that Headley was speaking Urdu."

"This really helped bring him (Headley) on the radar," Chicago police Commander Steve Caluris was quoted as saying of the officer's observation.

"We are not saying he witnessed him plotting something out there in the public. He recognised activity that seemed out of the ordinary," Caluris said.

Now, when two of his wives said that he was a terrorist, that he was part of LeT, that they could show the FBI eMails and telephone conversations etc., it did not create any suspicion at all and when his kids went to the park with him a police officer's suspicion was raised !

[arun]

X Posted.

The following is a first-hand representation of what David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American terrorist in a US prison, confessed to the sleuths of India’s National Investigation Agency in June this year. It was obtained by Dinesh Sharma of Zee News from highly placed sources in the agency and is being reproduced in a two-part series on the second anniversary of Mumbai terror attacks. …………………..

The David Headley Confessions: Part-I

The David Headley Confessions: Part-II

The confession of the Pakistani origin Islamic Terrorist Daood Gilani aka David Coleman Headley explicitly shows the involvement of organs of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in perpetrating the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai.

[sum]

Headley bares bigger ISI hand in 26/11 attacks

Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence’s (ISI) involvement in the 26/11 attack on Mumbai exactly two years ago to this day was even greater than is generally believed, portions of jailed Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley statements to the National Inves-tigation Agency (NIA) show.
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Freshly accessed by HT, the NIA report on the interrogation — conducted in Chicago last June — makes it clear that Headley spied for the ISI.

Headley revealed to the NIA that an officer of the ISI was assigned to train him in the finer aspects of intelligence gathering and subterfuge, before he set off on his repeated recces of potential targets in India.

“The training given by this officer under the guidance of Major Iqbal was much more scientific and effective than the training I received in LeT camps,” he said.

Investigators now believe as far as 26/11 was concerned, the LeT was merely the executive arm of the ISI and Headley was its spy-in-chief.

The ISI officer trained Headley in building sources and handling them.

Another important aspect was how to take cover. After theory lessons, Headley’s trainer, he said, would send him out to the streets of Lahore for practical training.

Major Iqbal provided Headley reading material on India too, which contained several pages stamped ‘Secret’. “I read the material with great interest and tried to follow the instructions there,” Headley said.

Earlier, Headley was trained by the LeT.

In February 2002, he attended ‘Daura-e-Sufa’ for three weeks at the LeT headquarterts in Muridke on the outskirts of Lahore.

In August 2002, Headley joined another three-week LeT training course named Daura-e-Aam. His co-students at the second course included a New Zealander, which confirms that LeT is spreading influence far.

In April 2003, Headley attended a third LeT course called Daura-e-Khasa, where he learnt to use arms and ammunition. Headley confessed he left the course midway as he found it too tough and had problems with his trainer Abu Furqan as well.

Later Headley attended two more LeT courses. But none of them were as effective as the ISI’s, he said

[ramana]

A_Gupta posted in wiki leaks thread...
I suppose this has been seen already?
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/20 ... CO614.html

David Coleman Headley
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¶11. (S) In December, an FBI-DOJ team briefed Pakistani
officials from the ISI, Ministry of Interior, FIA, IB, and
MFA on the David Coleman Headley investigation, providing
them with tear-line information on Headley's statements to
U.S. authorities. ISI officials said they had very little
information to identify the Pakistanis mentioned in the
statements. They discussed their investigation into First
World Immigration Service, a business front used by Headley
and his co-conspirators. The ISI said while they would not
grant direct FBI access to co-conspirator Major (retd.)
Abdurrehman Syed, who was in ISI custody, the FBI could
submit questions for Syed through the ISI. The FIA and
Ministry of Interior informed the FBI that it would be
difficult to introduce Headley-related evidence in the
government's prosecution of the Mumbai defendants, including
because Headley's statements to U.S. authorities would be
treated as hearsay with little evidentiary value in court.

tear-line was a new word for me -
"A physical line on an intelligence message or document separating categories of information that have been approved for foreign disclosure and release. Normally, the intelligence below the tear line is that which has been previously cleared for disclosure or release."

[Raja Ram]

ramana,

so in this case there is a lot above the tear line that the US is not sharing with Pakistan on Gilani aka headley.

Interesting thought is has the above the line information been shared with India?

[Ambar]

About the wiki excerpt that Ramanaji has posted, was that cable from Dec 2008 or Dec 2009? In either case if they did indeed try to pursue Headley angle, is it safe to say Uncle did not have an explicit and accurate knowledge of an impending attack on Mumbai?

[Lalmohan]

so headley was screened by the ISI from the LeT training camp
he attended boot camp (sufa) like all the gora wannabe's
he was probably watched for commitment (tick), aptitude in foot soldiering (poor), aptitude in using brain (high)
at advanced boot camp (khasa) he clearly demonstrated lack of interest in being cannon fodder and was possibly going to get canned until the ISI spotted his nascent spook skills

you couldn't get a more integrated operation if you tried, could you?

[ramana]

And all along he was undercover to the US. ALso why didn't the ISI feel that he could be double, despite all the warning signs of early release after drugs smuggling and previous episodes in the 80s?

In other words why didnt the dog bark as in "Case of the Silver Blaze"?

[ramana]

New wikileaks claim L-e-T module working:

Shafiq Khafa

Has anyone heard of this guy?

[Rangudu]

One of the TSPA officers involved in 26/11 was codenamed "Abu Qahafa". He's likely to be the same guy as Major Iqbal. This might be the guy referred to as "Shafiq Khafa"

[SSridhar]

Tahawwur Rana's trial set for Feb. 14

Rana, who has pleaded not guilty, is accused of providing "material support" for the attack.

Rana's lawyer Patrick W Blegen told Leinenweber that they haven't yet got all of the transcripts of recorded conversations involving their client.

Many of those recordings need to be translated, so the defence says it needs time to get that done, but will be ready for the February court date.

Blegen told the judge they need to know what evidence the government deems classified. Sensitive material may have to be presented behind closed doors. The judge set another status hearing for Dec. 13 to address that.

[Amber G.]

^^^ That's Valentine's day as many in Chicago remember...
BTW some local coverage/blogs...
>>>

Mumbai's Terror Suspect Tahawwur Rana's 49th Birthday Spent Inside Chicago Prison

Home grown (Canada) terrorist is faking sad...
Valentine’s Day Trial For Accused Terrorist

Also, the trial is expected to last a month or so..(Indian courts - please take a note)

[AjayKK]

Mirror's special report on David Headley

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

[A_Gupta]

Mumbai Mirror on Headley
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2 ... ayhem.html

Both Major Iqbal and Sajjid told him to focus on Taj, specifically the Ruby Room and Crystal Ballroom which hosted many conferences. Sajjid was of the view that software engineers and scientists often held conventions here, and if they could be killed in an attack it would be a symbolic victory against India's progress.

[ramana]

X-posted....

Jawed Mozawala was nabbed by the Mumbai Crime Branch for being on the pay of Pakistani diplomats on deputation at the Pakistani High Command in Delhi.

After their wedding in 2005, Javed’s wife Fatima quit her medical practice. He was finding it difficult to make ends make ends meet when his brother, who was already into a travel and tour company, suggested that he should try his luck as a visa agent. “Javed joined the Haj Committee and started working as a visa agent for people going on pilgrimage,” said a Crime Branch officer.

This job earned Javed Rs 25,000-30,000 per month in the Haj season. But, at other times, he would again struggle financially. “

Since his wife was accustomed to a good life that Javed was unable to provide, tension was starting to build between the couple.

Then, two years ago, Javed started facilitating Pakistan visas to augment his income, and his frequent visits to Pakistan High Commission in Delhi began,” said a Crime Branch officer.

Once in, no way out

As Javed’s trips to the High Commission increased, he befriended a few diplomats there. “Since he was in dire need of money, two of the officials in the consulate sensed they could use him.

They said they would help his brother in Pakistan in his garment business, showing him warmth that completely enamoured him. They promised him that his visa business, too, would start flourishing if he helped them,” the officer added.

According to the officer, these diplomats ensured that while visas were granted to Javed’s clients in two days, it would take others up to three months to get them. “This forced people to go to Javed, whose business increased exponentially.

In return, they asked Javed to do small favours - taking photographs of vital military installations and numbers of defence officers. They even trained him how not to raise suspicion.

After a few assignments, when Javed once expressed his concern, they threatened to expose him and withdraw all the concessions to his clients,” said a senior Crime Branch officer.

Not willing to lose out, Javed continued to do whatever his handlers wanted. He eventually came under the radar of the Intelligence Bureau, which tipped off the Crime Branch. “He was not indoctrinated or driven by a fundamentalist ideology. He was a victim of circumstances.

When the time came to make a choice, he should’ve known better. He made a bad decision, and is now paying for it,” the officer said.

LINK

Thankfully, the media has not given the usual "Go-dhara + Babri" excuse, which i am sure the Hindu would have inserted in the article.

And if you feel sorry for him, then don't because he had his career well charted out :

ISI spy enrolled in Youth Congress

Suspected ISI agent Javed Mozawala signed up for the party's youth wing eight months ago after Rahul Gandhi's mass membership drive for the Indian Youth Congress

Rahul Gandhi's impassioned exhorts to youngsters to join the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) a few months back found resonance in some unlikely quarters too.

They managed to inspire an alleged mole from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to climb aboard the Grand Old Party's youth wing.

Sources from the party told MiD DAY that he was sponsored by Naved Shaikh, son of oil mafioso Mohammad Ali Shaikh, allegedly a Dawood Ibrahim aide arrested for the murder of diesel don Chand Madar.

Naved has spent around Rs 25 lakh in the way of membership fees for various aspiring members including Mozawala.

The idea was to ascend the ladder and become a party suzerain by initiating as many youngsters as possible into the youth wing.

According to the police, Mozawala, an alleged close associate of Chhota Shakeel, had been relaying sensitive information to two Pakistani diplomats on deputation at the Pakistani High Command in Delhi.

The Crime Branch has recorded the statements of Mozawala's confederates Munir Khan and Fakir Ali as well. Both attested to the fact that Mozawala is an ISI accessory.

What is it with Rahul sahab, that attracts all and sundry from American diplomats to the neighbourhood ISI spy?

and

^So congress party leader Mohammad Ali Shaikh is still in business after 26/11

His History
Diesel smuggler and an ally of fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim
Stole contraband gold which was seized by customs
Bribed local police, customs department and coast guard to prevent them from arresting him
Murdered Adl. Commissioner of Customs L D Aurora
Helped Headley to carry out a recee of Mumbai coastline to identify points at which to disembark
Helped terrorists from Indonesia who were planning to attack US consulate at Breach Candy
Contested Lok Sabha elections on BSP ticket and has currently joined Congress party

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 721555.cms

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 801041.cms

Congress ka Haath, Smuggler aur Khoonion ke Saath

and

Ramana:
AjayKK and Raghavendra, Could this Mozawala guy been a stoolie of Headley's associate Rana the "travel agent" guy? We see he already has TSP/ISI's links and has connection to the Mumbai underworld which provided boat rides for Headley to figure out the sea way approach.

I think this guy is part of the unknown Headley cell.

[ramana]

X-posted from Intel thread in Mil Forum....

‘Spy’ held in Mumbai took orders from ISI officers at Delhi mission

LINK

A 28-year-old visa agent arrested in the city last week on suspicion of spying for Pakistan had allegedly scouted 20-25 terrorism targets across the country on the orders of two diplomats posted at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi, the police said on Wednesday. Among the sites scouted by Javed Abdul Gafoor Mozawala were dams, bridges, cantonments and other vital installations, they said.

Sources told The Indian Express that the two diplomats were senior Pakistan Army officers linked to the ISI, on deputation at the High Commission. One is believed to be of Lieutenant Colonel rank; the other a Major. A report detailing dealings between them and Mozawala is being sent to the Centre, and the process of declaring the officers persona non-grata would be initiated soon, they said.According to the Mumbai Police Crime Branch which arrested Mozawala on December 10, the suspect had, during frequent trips to Delhi over the past two years, passed on pictures of these sites on a microchip to the diplomats.

“Our Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) received information that a man identified as Javed Mozawala, residing in Byculla, was involved in anti-national activities. CIU raided his residence on confirmation that material evidence was likely to be found,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy.“Investigations have revealed that Mozawala was a well-embedded asset.

He was in touch with two senior officials in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, and was working under their instructions. We are in communication with the Ministry of Home Affairs regarding these two diplomats. Over the last two years, Mozawala had scouted around 20 to 25 important locations in and around Mumbai and other parts of the country. He used to pass on sensitive information on a microchip to these two officials,” said Roy.

The sites surveyed by Mozawala include the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore, the Western Naval Command office opposite the Reserve Bank of India on Mumbai’s Mint Road, and strategically located bridges across the country, sources said.Mozawala had also scouted the Koyna dam in Maharashtra to assess the potential for causing massive devastation by blowing it up, the sources added. Mozawala, a Class 8 dropout, has been booked under the Official Secrets Act and for forgery under the Indian Penal Code. He is in police custody until December 20. “From his residence we seized a manual in English on communications and tactics meant for Islamic terror organisations and groups, which is not available on the Internet or in the public domain.

He was also in possession of telephone numbers of senior officials, defence establishments and vital installations that are for restricted use only. We have seized photographs of dams, bridges, defence cantonments and vital installations during the raids, as well as mobile phones, SIM cards, CDs, and pen drives,” Roy said.

The police have also found that Mozawala underwent a civil aviation course in ground handling. They have seized two certificates of the course conducted by a Mumbai institute. “The course deals with ground handling, and since this does not fit with his career profile it could have sinister implications. Getting a job in cargo handling could get him access to restricted areas,” Roy said.

According to the police, Mozawala would liaise with the Pakistan High Commission to get people Pakistani visas. He is believed to have made several trips to Pakistan other than the two on record — and is likely to have been indoctrinated and given terror training. He was paid from time to time in return, including money to buy the small apartment in which he had been living for the past six months.

The locations are similar to those surveyed by Headleybhai!

[abhishek_sharma]

Cables Portray Expanded Reach of DEA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/world ... drugs.html

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret diplomatic cables.

A Larger Mandate

Created in 1973, the D.E.A. has steadily built its international turf, an expansion primarily driven by the multinational nature of the drug trade, but also by forces within the agency seeking a larger mandate. Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the agency’s leaders have cited what they describe as an expanding nexus between drugs and terrorism in further building its overseas presence.

In Afghanistan, for example, “DEA officials have become convinced that ‘no daylight’ exists between drug traffickers at the highest level and Taliban insurgents,” Karen Tandy, then the agency’s administrator, told European Union officials in a 2007 briefing, according to a cable from Brussels.

Ms. Tandy described an agency informant’s recording of a meeting in Nangarhar Province between 9 Taliban members and 11 drug traffickers to coordinate their financial support for the insurgency, and she said the agency was trying to put a “security belt” around Afghanistan to block the import of chemicals for heroin processing. The agency was embedding its officers in military units around Afghanistan, she said. In 2007 alone, the D.E.A. opened new bureaus in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as well as in three Mexican cities.

Cables describe lengthy negotiations over the extradition to the United States of the two notorious arms dealers wanted by the D.E.A. as it reached beyond pure counternarcotics cases: Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian arrested in Spain, and Viktor Bout, a Russian arrested in Thailand. Both men were charged with agreeing to illegal arms sales to informants posing as weapons buyers for Colombian rebels. Notably, neither man was charged with violating narcotics laws.

Late last year in a D.E.A. case, three men from Mali accused of plotting to transport tons of cocaine across northwest Africa were charged under a narco-terrorism statute added to the law in 2006, and they were linked to both Al Qaeda and its North African affiliate, called Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

The men themselves had claimed the terrorism link, according to the D.E.A., though officials told The New York Times that they had no independent corroboration of the Qaeda connections. Experts on the desert regions of North Africa, long a route for smuggling between Africa and Europe, are divided about whether Al Qaeda operatives play a significant role in the drug trade, and some skeptics note that adding “terrorism” to any case can draw additional investigative resources and impress a jury.

It appears that Headley was hired by DEA to penetrate LeT/Al Qaeda.

[ramana]

In interests of ensuring there are no gaps in running agents DEA might have o be brought under CIA control when it operates outside the US.

Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency

[Pratyush]

I am unable to read the contents of the article due to the fire wall. But if the headlines accurately potrays the contents of the article. Then it begs the question why if the US protecting headly.

Headly was a Pak spy working for the ISI

[Raghavendra]

ISI handler trained me in Lahore: David Headley
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/isi-h ... y/731819/0

US and Indian officials probing the 26/11 terror attack now believe that Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Coleman Headley, who scouted targets in Mumbai, was “more than a terrorist... a Pakistani spy” who was trained for months on the streets of Lahore in “techniques for detecting surveillance, developing sources and other skills” by his ISI handler Major Iqbal.

US-based online investigative news outfit ProPublica, which has obtained a copy of a 119-page report recounting Headley’s interrogation by Indian authorities, said Headley told investigators that a Pakistani Navy frogman helped plan the maritime attack on Mumbai.

The report quoted Headley as saying that ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha later went to see Lashkar military chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in custody. “Pasha had visited him to understand the Mumbai attack conspiracy.”

In its lead story ‘Mumbai case offers rare picture of ties between Pakistan’s intelligence service, militants’, ProPublica said Headley began a direct relationship with ISI officers in January 2006 after Pakistani authorities briefly detained him for trying to smuggle arms into India, according to his account.

An ISI officer named Major Samir Ali interviewed the American, then referred him to a Major Iqbal, who became his main handler in Lahore. Major Iqbal, described as fat, deep-voiced and in his mid-thirties, introduced Headley to a man identified as Lieutenant Colonel Shah, who promised Headley financial support for terrorist operations against India.

“At subsequent meetings in safe houses, Major Iqbal gave Headley secret documents on India. He assigned a non-commissioned officer to give the American standard intelligence training. Headley learned techniques for detecting surveillance, developing sources and other skills, then practiced with the lower-ranking officer on the streets of Lahore. The specialised training lasted several months and continued intermittently afterward as Major Iqbal taught Headley how to use cameras and other devices for missions,” ProPublica quoted the report.

“I became close to Major Iqbal,” Headley told interrogators. “The training given by this NCO under the guidance of Major Iqbal was much more scientific and effective than the trainings I did in the LeT camps.”

[ramana]

Found a new search engine Blekko.com

Blekko Links on DCH



And an interesting blog on Bhatts an DCH and Uncle:

Mahesh Bhatt and Headley Affair

How come our experts did not see this?

Karan Dixit, Can you add the events in your timeline?

[Dipanker]

Found a new search engine Blekko.com

Blekko Links on DCH



And an interesting blog on Bhatts an DCH and Uncle:

Mahesh Bhatt and Headley Affair

How come our experts did not see this?

Karan Dixit, Can you add the events in your timeline?

Interesting indeed, the name says "Bharat Bachao Andolan" but the cotents reveals it is more like "Pakistan Bachao". This Mahesh Bhatt dude is surely an ISI agent.

[JE Menon]

And guess what, the president of Awami Bharat which that blog appears to represent is Feroze Mithiborwala, who is heading the Indian delegation in the "Gaza Convoy"...

[ramana]

All I know from my Indic roots is keep the eyes open to make sure we get the picture.

DCH is complex phenomena that has many connections. The root of it is US. Is there US complicity in the attack by commission or omission. The hurry in which they setup the pleas bargain appeared to be they have something to hide. If its omission then, omission one can understand as they have so many spies all working at cross purposes. Big mistake to have non chefs running ops without oversight.

But commission requires their role unmasked. We dont know this yet.

That missionary has some role of being a communication node at a minimum.

[Dipanker]

Whether by omission or commission US owns a degree of culpability for 26/11, there is no denying that.
But the perpetrators of 26/11 are Pakis ISI/LeT and we should continue addressing the Pakis as a terrorist state as long as as they continue to be a terrorists state and holding them responsible for the acts of terrorism they have committed us.
We should also at the same time be watchful of the agendas of organization like Awami Bharat.

[shyamd]

What is India going to do once it finds out the truth? Lets say it is the US, it won't change whats going on in the background and the bigger picture.

[ramana]

What is India going to do once it finds out the truth? Lets say it is the US, it won't change whats going on in the background and the bigger picture.

First it supports the motto; "Satyame jayate!"
Second it helps to unDIE the elite. Makes them more circumspect.
Third its indirect action will be reduce the fake shine of American do goodness.

[shyamd]

Ramanaji, have the strategists in the seat in Dilli changed from the last 20 years or so? Not a rhetorical question. Are strategists who were around in Kargil/SL war etc still around in positions in Dilli today?