Headley’s wives warned FBI about Mumbai terror attacks
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| Published on 10-25-2010 | Email To Friend Print Version |
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Source: Aljazeera Two wives of an American man convicted for his role in the Mumbai attacks had tipped off the FBI about their husband’s suspicious movements well before the assaults in 2008, according to media reports. US authorities had been informed that David Headley was tied to the Pakistani group alleged to be behind the plot, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing a person close to the case. Headley pleaded guilty in March to a dozen US terrorism charges related to the Mumbai attacks, and to a plot to attack the Danish newspaper that had published cartoons in 2005 that mocked the Prophet Muhammad. In his trial this year, the businessman admitted to scouting targets for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based group that India has blamed for the attacks. He agreed to help investigators and give testimony against others in exchange for a promise that he would not be extradited to India, Pakistan or Denmark. The first tip came in 2005, when Headley was arrested following a domestic dispute with his wife, who the paper did not name. The wife told the FBI in interviews that he was active in LeT, had trained in camps in Pakistan and had looked for night vision goggles, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed officials and other sources close to the case. His second wife, a Moroccan woman named Faiza Outalha, twice informed the American embassy in Islamabad in 2007 that Headley was involved with the Pakistani group alleged to be plotting against targets in India, The New York Times reported on Saturday. |
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