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Nov14
Headley surveyed all 26/11 targets
Filed under: News & Views;No CommentsThe FBI reports on Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley’s Mumbai connection has put the Mumbai police on an overdrive. Investigating agencies are gathering more and more clues to piece together Headley’s role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror plot, with sources saying that Headley surveyed all 26/11 Mumbai terror targets.
Headley, who was arrested by the FBI in Chicago for allegedly hatching a conspiracy with LeT to carry out strikes in India, checked in to the Taj Hotel in Mumbai on two occasions in 2007. Official sources in Mumbai said investigations have revealed that Headley, arrested by US investigating agency FBI for planning terror attacks in India, stayed at Taj between March 28 and March 30, 2007. During this period, he stayed in Room No 1809, they said.
Headley came back to the hotel on May 2, 2007 and stayed in Room No 314 till May 7, the sources said. The Taj had bore the brunt of the three-day carnage after Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists struck Mumbai on November 26 last. Rana, who is also under FBI custody, had stayed in a guest house in south Mumbai till November 21, 2008, before he flew to an European destination on way back to Canada.
Headley’s second target was the Trident Hotel – which also eventually bore the brunt of 26/11 attack. Sources say Headley posed as a customer and gathered crucial information on the Hotel.
Headley’s third target was Nariman House — the Jewish Centre. Sources say Headley conducted recces of the Centre and also posed as a Jew during his stay in Mumbai. Sources said that Headley reportedly passed all the details to the Lashkar handlers in Pakistan.
Incidentally, when Headley was arrested, the FBI recovered from him a copy of a book — How To Pray Like a Jew — indicating the level of preparation he undertook while visiting his targets. Headley might have carried this book even when he was in Mumbai for a recce of Chabad House.
The sources said this has raised suspicion that he may have given final touches to the audacious terror strikes five days later 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.
National Investigating Agency and central security agencies are now probing into the travel details of both the suspects to check if they had any hand in the 26/11 attack or the serial bomb blasts in the country between 2006 and 2008.
Meanwhile, after it emerged that US terror suspect Headley visited Mumbai and a host of other cities in India during the last two years, the Gujarat ATS on Saturday (November 14) confirmed that Headley and his accomplice had even visited Ahmedabad. The Gujarat ATS has also launched a probe into what Headley did whilst in Ahmedabad.
The 49-year-old Headley was arrested last month at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel to Pakistan. FBI also arrested Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, for his alleged involvement in terror activities.
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