American CIA Rats Behind Mumbai Terror Attack

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http://www.pakspectator.com/david-headl ... y-be-both/

David Headley: Terrorist or CIA agent? May be both?
U.S. citizen David Headley, aka Daood Gilani, who was arrested in connection with last year's Mumbai terrorist attacks, may have been a double agent for the CIA at the time of the incident, according to U.S. journalists.

More than 160 people were killed in the financial hub of Mumbai in three days of attacks by a group of 10 gunmen, beginning on November 26, 2008.

Headley had allegedly helped plan the attack by conducting reconnaissance missions in Mumbai.

More than two months after Pakistani-American jihadist David Headley was held in Chicago, India's intelligence services are divided on whether they were told the whole truth about the so called Lashkar-e-Taiba clandestine agent's operations orchestrated by CIA.

Many in the intelligence services even suspect that owing to the CIA involvement the United States is less than committed to letting the whole truth be known.

Public debate has focused on claims that Headley—who served as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant after being arrested with two kg of heroin in 1988—may have been planted by U.S. covert services inside Lashkar after his release in 2002.

"If this David Headley was working for the CIA all along, which is a very plausible conclusion," says writer and journalist Webster Tarpley, "It means that the CIA implicated and was running and masterminding the Mumbai terror attack of 2008."

David Headley of Chicago – aka Daood Gilani – was formally charged with involvement in planning last year's terrorist attacks on 26/11/08 in Mumbai, India, says the US Justice Department.

Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 and resides primarily in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 3, 2009, by the Chicago FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) at O'Hare International Airport before boarding a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan.

Also, Tahawwur Hussain Rana – aka Tahawar Rana - a native of Pakistan and citizen of Canada who also resides in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 18, 2009, at his home by federal agents. Rana is the owner of several businesses, including First World Immigration Services, which has offices in Chicago, New York and Toronto. He was charged with conspiracy to provide support to a foreign terrorism conspiracy that involved Headley and other individuals in Pakistan.

On Dec. 7, United States Attorney's office unsealed additional charges, reading in parts:
"New federal charges filed today allege that a Chicago man, who was arrested in October for planning terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper and two of its employees, also conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 terrorist attack on India's largest city that killed approximately 170 people, including six Americans, and injured hundreds more. The defendant, David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen, earlier this decade allegedly attended terrorism training camps in Pakistan maintained by Lashkar e Tayyiba (Lashkar), and conspired with its members and others in planning and executing the attacks in both Denmark and India....."

According to the charges, "He made five extended trips to Mumbai — in September 2006, February and September 2007, and April and July 2008 — each time taking pictures and making videotapes of various targets, including those attacked in November 2008....."

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, commented on the investigation saying: "This case illustrates the importance of continued global cooperation to combat terrorism around the world. The FBI continues to strengthen relationships and to foster collaboration with our international partners to best ensure our collective ability to identify and disrupt international terror networks."

It is also reported that American-born terror suspect David Headley had not only actively played a role in conducting reconnaissance of targets in Mumbai but was also present in a control unit in Pakistan along with the masterminds of the attacks to carry out 10 Lqashkar e taiba terrorists to carry out strikes in the megapolis.

Sources privy to the investigations of the terror suspect's trail in India said 48-year-old Headley was very much present in the room
-4 from where the 10 LeT terrorists were being guided to various locations during the 26/11 attacks.

The investigators re-visited the intercepts and found that there were specific instructions being given to terrorists about entry and exit including that they had taken more time before reaching their final targets which included Taj Mahal hotel, Oberoi and Trident towers and Nariman House.

India has asked for a voice sample of Headley from the FBI to match with a voice which was unidentified so far for the security agencies. This voice was giving information on exact surroundings of the targets attacked by Lashker-e-Taiba militants.  However, there was no firm response from the FBI on provididng the sameto Indian investigators, the sources said.   (Ed. note:  I wonder if this is because Headley is being said to be cooperating with the FBI?)

Other places that Headley was able to get into using his connections as an American?

"... (Headley) had used the service of many prominent individuals in the city to conduct a proper recce of the places which also included Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC). Israeli Embassy in Cuffe Parade and Israeli airlines offices located in the World trade centre."

This is in addition to the actual Mumbai targets:  Nariman House, the  Taj Mahal hotel,  Leopold Cafe, Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Oberoi-Trident hotels.

Links; Adab-arz.co.uk

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-http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6960182.ece

Mumbai terror suspect David Headley was 'rogue US secret agent'
Rhys Blakely in Mumbai
A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year's attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an American secret agent who went rogue, Indian officials believe.

David Headley, 49, who was born in Washington to a Pakistan diplomat father and an American mother, was arrested in Chicago in October. He is accused of reconnoitring targets in India and Europe for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based terror group behind the Mumbai attacks and of having links to al-Qaeda. He has denied the charges.

He came to the attention of the US security services in 1997 when he was arrested in New York for heroin smuggling. He earned a reduced sentence by working for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) infiltrating Pakistan-linked narcotics gangs.

Indian investigators, who have been denied access to Mr Headley, suspect that he remained on the payroll of the US security services — possibly working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — but switched his allegiance to LeT.

Mr Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani, was in Mumbai until two weeks before the attacks on the city, which claimed 166 lives last November. It is alleged that he spent months checking targets in India's commercial capital, using his Western looks and anglicised name to move in elite social circles, hobnob with Bollywood actors and even to pass himself off as Jewish.

Despite being firmly on the radar of the US intelligence agencies, he was allowed to return to India as recently as March. Indian officials are furious that their American counterparts did not share details of that visit at the time. The Indian media has raised the possibility that Mr Headley was being protected by his American handlers — a theory that experts say is credible.

"The feeling in India is that the US has not been transparent," said B. Raman, a former counter-terrorism chief in the Indian foreign intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing.

"That Headley was an agent for the DEA is known. Whether he was being used by the CIA as well is a matter of speculation, but it is almost certain that the CIA was aware of him and his movements across the subcontinent."

According to Mr Raman, it is probable that Mr Headley, who was arrested when the US authorities learned that he was about to fly to Pakistan, was listed on the main database of the US National Counterterrorism Centre, a facility used by the CIA and several other American agencies to track terror suspects.

Indian officials suspect that US agencies declined to share intelligence to avoid compromising other secret operations and to to be able to deny any link with Mr Headley.

Analysts believe that the US may also have been anxious to avoid sharing information that could further raise tensions between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed neighbours who have fought three wars.

According to documents put before a court in Chicago, Mr Headley had links with the Pakistan Army and, through it, with al-Qaeda.

As well as helping to co-ordinate the Mumbai atrocity, Mr Headley is accused of planning attacks on Mumbai's Bollywood film industry, the Shiv Sena, a Hindu extremist group also based in Mumbai, a major Hindu temple, and a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

The US authorities allege that he was close to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a former Pakistani schoolmate and businessman who is also being charged with planning to attack the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. Mr Rana is accused of having known about the attack on Mumbai in advance.

The CIA denied that Headley had worked for the organisation.

"Any suggestion that Headley was working for the CIA is complete and utter nonsense. It's flat-out false," Paul Gimigliano, from the CIA's Office of Public Affairs, said.

The Indian Home Secretary, Gopal Krishna Pillai, has said that his Government would seek the extradition of Mr Headley — a request that has so far been stonewalled by US officials.

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India claims the ISI was behind it. The ISI is a puppet agency of the CIA and was created by them. They get their orders from Langley.

-http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/20107141382061866.html

India: ISI behind Mumbai attacks
 
India's foreign minister is in Pakistan to revive talks suspended after the 2008 Mumbai attacks [AFP]
A senior Indian official has accused Pakistani intelligence of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

G K Pillai, India's home secretary, said on Wednesday that the perpetrators of the attacks in which 166 people died were "clients and creations" of the Inter-Services Intelligence [ISI] agency of the Pakistan army".

"They [ISI] were literally controlling and co-ordinating it from the beginning until the end," the Indian Express newspaper quoted Pillai as saying.

India has in the past blamed the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group for the Mumbai attacks and alleged ISI involved, which Pakistan denies, but Pillai's comments were the most direct accusation India has made against the government agency.

Pillai said the evidence against the ISI emerged from the interrogation by Indian officials of David Headley, a US citizen, who pleaded guilty to working with Lashkar to plan the attacks.

The accusation comes on the eve of talks aimed at reviving a peace process between the two countries, which was broken off after the deadly assault.

Pakistan pressure

Prerna Suri, Al Jazeera's India correspondent, said that while it was not a new allegation, the timing of the statement was very significant.

"In his confessional statement, Headley named the ISI as being behind the co-ordination and logistical support of the Mumbai attacks," Suri said.

"New Delhi is sending a clear message to Pakistan that security will be the main concern during these talks.

"They [India] would like Pakistan to crack down on those groups, who they feel are operating against Indian interests, meaning LeT as well as individuals such as [its chief] Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, who many in India feel are being given patronage by various elements in Pakistan."

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S M Krishna, India's foreign minister, said he would press Pakistan on the progress of its probe into the Mumbai attacks as he arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday for the meeting, saying he was looking forward to receiving feedback from the Pakistanis on India's "core concern of terrorism".

He said the issue was discussed during last month's visit of  P Chidambaram, India's home minister, to Pakistan and he would raise it again in talks with Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan's foreign minister, on Thursday.

"We hope to discuss all issues of mutual interest and concerns that can contribute to restoring trust and building confidence in our bilateral relationship," Krishna said as he arrived in Islamabad.

"This is an important visit as it marks the new beginning of a journey in our effort to build a peaceful, friendly and co-operative relationship between our two countries."

Resuming dialogue between the countries is crucial not only for improving their ties but also the security outlook in Afghanistan where the two countries vie for influence.

India broke off a four-year-old peace process with Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks, saying reviving the dialogue would depend on action against Lashkar and Saeed, who India says masterminded the assault.

Pakistan has put seven people on trial for the Mumbai attacks but has maintained that India has not provided enough evidence to prosecute Saeed.

Pillai said Saaed's role in the Mumbai attacks was not "peripheral", but that "he knew everything".

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unless there was some reason why the CIA should manage the project, e.g. "it's their turn",
from an operational point of view, i think it makes more sense for the Mossad to do it.

if the CIA gets caught, it trashes the reputation of the United States.  if the Mossad gets caught, it can't trash Israel's reputation, because it's already trashed.

but the Headley involvement did get fairly mainstream news coverage, i forget which paper but it doesn't leave much doubt, the US government had a player in the Mumbai team.  which is pretty fuckin' sick (not sick like surfers use it - there it's a good thing.)

what do the various governments say to the government of India about this invasion ?  maybe something like, "yes, we did have a counterintelligence agent David Headley working in the terror group, and we are so sorry about your terrible loss.  we did everything we could to prevent it."

i understand that the Indian government could see some advantages to a "Let's hate Muslims" campaign, especially if they have bought into the War on Terror and are eyeballing those War on/of Terror $$ from Uncle Sam.

but i still don't entirely understand their motivations.  maybe there is a Brahmin racist sect running India that has identified with the racism of Israel & the Jews and they have all agreed to have a crime gang together.  the Brahmin's being the highest of 5 castes in the "old India".

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unless there was some reason why the CIA should manage the project, e.g. "it's their turn",
from an operational point of view, i think it makes more sense for the Mossad to do it.

if the CIA gets caught, it trashes the reputation of the United States.  if the Mossad gets caught, it can't trash Israel's reputation, because it's already trashed.

but the Headley involvement did get fairly mainstream news coverage, i forget which paper but it doesn't leave much doubt, the US government had a player in the Mumbai team.  which is pretty fuckin' sick (not sick like surfers use it - there it's a good thing.)

what do the various governments say to the government of India about this invasion ?  maybe something like, "yes, we did have a counterintelligence agent David Headley working in the terror group, and we are so sorry about your terrible loss.  we did everything we could to prevent it."

i understand that the Indian government could see some advantages to a "Let's hate Muslims" campaign, especially if they have bought into the War on Terror and are eyeballing those War on/of Terror $$ from Uncle Sam.

but i still don't entirely understand their motivations.

The obvious motivation was to start a war between Pakistan/India which the American/Israeli weapons manufacturers would welcome gleefully. Sort of like the Iraq-Iran war, Iran Contra dealio - they'd covertly sell weapons to both sides. The U.S. backs every conflict if you didn't notice -- whether it was the Kosovo/Serb conflict, the Iraq-Iran conflict, Soviet-Afghan war, almost every conflict/civil war in south and central America, the United States is backing one side or the other. often times instigating the conflict in the first place via CIA covert ops or false flag operations which is sometimes done through Israeli intelligence, sometimes British, most times American intelligence, or a CIA proxy rebel/terrorist force who were trained/armed by CIA guerrilla warfare and torture experts.