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Paid DEA Informant Scouted out Mumbai Attacks
Federal officials acknowledged Saturday that David Coleman Headley, the U.S. businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant while training with terrorists in Pakistan.
The sort of news best released on a weekend in the hopes none pay attention.
The Indian government accused Mr. Headley of being a double agent shortly after he was picked up. There was an article in the Times in December 2009 which said
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.
This is a long-overdue official confirmation. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-17 |
