But the excuse given is he went 'rogue'.
The question arises: WHY did it take them so long to admit it? They knew from day one. They knew he had been working for them since the early 2000s. It is only after the Indian investigation has proved his involvement with US intelligence agencies that US has come out with this cover-up (that "Oh yes, he used to be our guy but then LeT brainwashed him")...
I say I have no doubt he was still in working for FBI on the day of Mumbai attacks. Do you agree?
He claims a key motivation for the ISI in aiding the attacks was to bolster militant organisations with strong links to the Pakistani state and security establishment who were being marginalised by more extreme radical groups.
Headley, who undertook surveillance of the targets in Mumbai for the operation, claims that at least two of his missions were partly paid for by the ISI and that he regularly reported to the spy agency. However, the documents suggest that supervision of the militants by the ISI was often chaotic and that the most senior officers of the agency may have been unaware at least of the scale and ambition of the operation before it was launched.
Headley, interviewed over 34 hours by Indian investigators in America in June, described how "a debate had begun among the terrorist outfits" and "a clash of ideology" leading to "splits".
"The aggression and commitment to jihad shown by several splinter groups in Afghanistan influenced many committed fighters to leave [LeT]," Headley said. "I understand this compelled the LeT to consider a spectacular terrorist strike in India."
Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani, told the investigators that the ISI hoped the Mumbai attack would slow or stop growing "integration" between groups active in Kashmir, with whom the agency had maintained a long relationship, and "Taliban-based outfits" in Pakistan and Afghanistan which were a threat to the Pakistani state.
"The ISI … had no ambiguity in understanding the necessity to strike India," Headley is reported to have said. The aim of the agency was "controlling further split in the Kashmir-based outfits, providing them a sense of achievement and shifting … the theatre of violence from the domestic soil of Pakistan to India."
Headley describes meeting once with a "Colonel Kamran" from the military intelligence service and having a series of meetings with a "Major Iqbal" and a "Major Sameer Ali". A fellow conspirator was handled by a Colonel Shah, he claims. Headley also alleges that he was given $25,000 by his ISI handler to finance one of eight surveillance missions in India.
However, Headley describes the ISI director general, Lt General Shuja Pasha, visiting a key senior militant from LeT in prison after the attacks in a bid "to understand" the operation, implying that, as many western security agencies suspect, the top ranks of the agency were unaware of at least the scale of the planned strike.
The Pakistani government has repeatedly denied any involvement of any security official in the Mumbai attacks. Last night, an ISI spokesman told the Guardian the accusations of the agency's involvement in the Mumbai attacks were "baseless".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/18/pakistan-isi-mumbai-terror-attacks
It is difficult to say anything on the issue really. It is hard to believe he 'slipped' out of American hands. I'm sure they wouldn't have said that had Headly not been half Pakistani. The attacks only strengthened America's case.
But then we can never be sure of whether he did or did not actually get brainwashed by LET. We know these organizations work that way.
These are very complicated games. We'd probably never know the truth.
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You really believe that Headley was brain washed by LeT ???
Or you are seeing right thru the bs they are creating.
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Of course it is TOTAL BS...
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Jazak Allah Khair.
Cos when the white people admit of some wrong doing that usually means that they have fuked up the entire thing and dont want to admit.
Finally LeT gets a huge relief.
Lol
Again Wahabis get exonerated ironic isnt it. lol
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Oh so it's a 'wahabi' thing for you. Keep j*rking off to that while blowing the molvi of whatever sect you belong to. ...
Lol! Lol!!
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Not for me
For me they are just like Xe. But a whole lot different. But they belong to the Ahl-e-Hadith. Thus the use of the term Wahabi as many ppl call them
Akhi Stop believing that if you do certain things all the time so would everyone else. That is not the case.
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The biggest story that exnonrates Pakistan and pins it on India and US axis of Evil and none pay attention.
Sad very Sad.
Who will pay attention on India and US's "mutual interest" US is paying million to our "Peer Murshads" Gilani,Sha Mehmood and Zardari. availablity of food increased on Shrines.
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ISI is not involved in this mumbay attack. The Indian government never found or showed any solid evidence which proved that pakistan was involved in this or pakistani goverment was involved in this. They showed a pakistani pickle in their amateur media to prove that pakistan is a menace. But we know that the Indian major was involved in the sumjhota ekspress and killed hundreds of pakistani (humanbeings) as human as indian citizens of mumbay. So why cant we turn the tables around. The Indian major wasnt doing this on his own. And we have to understand that every indian humanbeing and american humanbeing is equal to pakistani humanbeing. What happened in usa in 9 11 was bad and what is happening in pakistan everyday is bad and what happened in samjhota ekspress was bad and what happened in mumbay is also bad. We have to condemned every kind of killing and not be munafiqs.
Who will pay attention on India and US's "mutual interest" US is paying million to our "Peer Murshads" Gilani,Sha Mehmood and Zardari. availablity of food increased on Shrines.
An obvious attempt to promote one culture above others. Question is Why?
sorry S.E MG
Did I say you are promoting that culture?
Kindly read your post again including US is paying millions to our Peer/s......availability of food increased on Shrines.
I hope that clears it is US and not you.
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