National Defence College was on terror radar: Headley

Headley also told the court that after 26/11 attacks, he was continuously in touch with LeT’s Sajid Mir and was concerned about the safety of Hafiz Saeed and Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi.

Headley claimed to have discussed the temple and other terror plans with his LeT handlers and the ISI discouraged them from targeting the temple, Indian Navy’s air force station, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and Gateway of India in Mumbai as they were very heavily guarded sites when he surveyed them.

“I also visited and videographed BARC”.

Trashing demands of BJP that the Congress leadership should apologise in the matter, Sibal said that the implicit faith in the statements of Headley was “yet another example of opportunism of BJP”. “At that time, I had made a general video of the (Army) station from outside”, he said. “Sajid Mir and Pasha asked me to survey this place and said that it was an worldwide location as it had Jewish and Israeli people”, he said.

He also said that they should consider the matter seriously so that the victims of the attack can get justice.

When Judge G A Sanap asked Headley why he had purchased the other four books, he said, “The other books were pictorial and lovely, hence I purchased them”. I could not meet Tahawwur Rana (Headley’s business partner), but I spoke with him on the phone.

He said the United States is working with and has encouraged that kind of collaboration between Pakistan and India on this particular case.

– Despite having apprehensions of being arrested in India, I nonetheless determined to go to India once more. Talking about the finer details of the planning of the terror attack, he said it was done in detail. “Zaki Sahab wished me good luck”, he said.

Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Bihar demanded an unconditional apology from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav for calling Ishrat Jehan, the girl who was killed in a police encounter in Gujarat in 2004, a “daughter of Bihar”, after David Coleman Headley, an American terrorist of Pakistani origin who is now serving 35 years in a U.S. prison, told the law enforcement officials that Jehan indeed was an LeT operative.