Terror Trial Witness Ties Pakistan to 2008 Attacks (Mumbai)

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Source: The New York Times

CHICAGO — The government’s leading witness in a high-profile terrorism trial told jurors here Monday that the group behind the 2008 attack on Mumbai, India, had ties to Pakistan’s intelligence service.

In testimony that prosecutors said offered a “rare look” inside a major terrorist plot, David C. Headley said he had trained with the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba between 2002 and 2005 in preparation for scouting locations to attack in India. In 2006, Mr. Headley said, he met a member of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency who offered to provide financial support for that surveillance.

In testimony so painstaking that the judge and some jurors seemed to nod off at the mundane details of a plot that left 163 people dead, Mr. Headley described how he changed his name and used his American passport to portray himself alternately as a tourist or a businessman, concealing his Muslim faith and his Pakistani roots so he could travel easily across borders. He said he provided hours of video of potential targets in Mumbai to his handlers in both ISI and Lashkar.

“I understood these groups operated under the umbrella of the ISI,” he said, referring to Lashkar. “They coordinated with each other.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/world/asia/24headley.html

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1. Pakistan has bloody hands at the highest level.

If the ISI headquarters is searched, it will prove that Pakistan was also behind 9/11.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was an ISI operative and wired $100K to Mohammad Atta.

Pakistan was mad at the US at the time for a) blocking sales of F-16s to Pakistan, b) The Brownbeck amendment which prohibited all aid to Pakistan and c) Forcing a withdrawal of Pakistani ISI/military/terrorists (same thing) from Kargil in Kashmir, giving India a huge victory.

Osama was also an ISI operative and was protected by the ISI till the end.

The only real enemy of the US in the Islamic world is Pakistan and it is ironic that we keep sending billions to them.