Prodded by Nikam for details about the operation, Headley said, “There was a female wing in LeT which was headed by one Abu Aiman’s mother”.
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Headley said that LeT commander Zaki-ur-Rehman wanted to finalise Gateway of India as the landing site for the 10 terrorists as it was very close to the Taj hotel.
1- Ishrat Jahan was killed in a fake encounter in June 2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, this stands proven by the SIT investigation monitored by the Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court; subsequent CBI investigation which led to the filing of one chargesheet against senior police officers of Gujarat and a supplementary chargesheet against IB officers.
“After the 26/11 terror attack I met Ilyas Kashmiri (of al-Qaeda) in February 2009 and he asked me to visit India again as they were also interested in carrying out terrorist activities in India”.
He said he had videographed BARC at Trombay in Mumbai in July 2008 and that LeT had asked him to recruit some employee of BARC who would work for ISI. Also, Major Iqbal gave me counter it Indian currency once or twice in 2008, he said.
Seeking an apology from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, then Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and other party leaders lined up to “weave a fictional tale” to target Modi, then Gujarat Chief Minister, the BJP also virtually defended the police personnel arrested for killing Ishrat, saying the then UPA government made sure they were put behind bars.
The police alleged that Ishrat and her associates were Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives involved in a plot to assassinate the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. “India must now seize this opportunity to isolate Pakistan globally by initiating a diplomatic exercise aimed at getting Pakistan formally declared as a terrorist state”, Singh said.
The Pune assignment was carried out at the behest of Major Iqbal of the ISI, to whom the videos were later handed over.
He said he provided two-three videos to his Pakistani handlers Sajid Mir and Major Iqbal.
After some time G.L.Singhal also came out of the chamber and returned to the Gaikwad House office.
“But at this time, I can say there’s no plans for any joint naval patrols”, he said adding, There were no plans for naval patrols in the Indian Ocean either.
“He (Headley) provided testimony via video link to a court in Mumbai”.
If the Grand Old Party of India has feet of clay and is either on the side of terrorists or do little when terror strikes then they are playing into Pakistan’s hands and in any civilized country would be considered anti-national.
“Headley’s deposition that she was a LeT’s suicide bomber has unmasked those who do politics over terrorism”. She was with them and there was another man, an Indian origin terrorist, with whom she was living. He also said that he knows one Captain Khurram who was earlier with the Pakistan Army but had left it as he was unhappy.
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Headley said his assessment was that ISI and LeT were coordinating with each other.
