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Tried to prevent Mumbai attacks, but US authorities didn't bother: David Headley's ex-wife
2012-04-18
The estranged wife of admitted Pakistani American terrorist David Coleman Headley claims she tried to prevent the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack by going to US authorities abroad, but they did not bother.

"So I went to them and I then started saying all sorts of crazy stuff, I said he's going to bomb everything, he's a criminal. They didn't bother," Faiza Outalha was quoted as saying by Chicago's WLS-TV/DT.

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Headley, who has confessed to his role in scouting targets for the Mumbai in a plea deal with the US government was an avowed terrorist when he married Outalha, according to the television station that tracked her to Morocco.

"I'm covering my face right now, yes, because I'm afraid that people really could look at, see my face and pursue me or come and try to harm me," she was quoted as saying.

"It was love at first sight, you know, and we just married and, you know, it was so quick," Outalha said. "He betrayed me in every way, many lies, he's been lying to me, I mean the marriage, he fooled me to this marriage."

Headley, alias Daood Gilani, claims he worked with officials from Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency to survey attack sites in India, even while on a Mumbai honeymoon with his new wife.

Indian authorities have sent a formal request to Morocco to hand over Outalha in the continuing investigation of the Mumbai attacks. If she cooperates, they hope that Outalha will offer information about the LeT founder and leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, for whose successful prosecution US announced a $10 million bounty two weeks ago, WLS-TV said.
Posted by:tipper

#10  *** cough *** cough **** cough **** ....

D *** NGED AM CHOCOLATE COCONUT DONUT BAR.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-04-18 20:15  

#9  Not able to communicate the urgency? Bah! More like she wasn't even allowed to see a U.S. citizen and had to tell her tale to a local employee. Have any of you ever *actually been* to an American consulate abroad? They have separate entrances for supplicants and Bwanahs. If you're a local and not even a U.S. citizen, forget it. The State Department's job - as they view it - is government-to-government relations. Fuck anyone else.
Posted by: gromky   2012-04-18 16:02  

#8  tried to prevent the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack by going to US authorities abroad

Sounds like the tried to do the right thing to me. Why not save the vitriol for, you know, the guys who did the killing, instead of the woman who tried to stop them?
Posted by: Secret Master   2012-04-18 15:41  

#7  I stand corrected. Question is then what she knew and why they dismissed her.
Posted by: Steve White   2012-04-18 13:24  

#6  She was concerned enough to go to the Americans to tell them about it. So was the Pantibomber's father. Neither was able to communicate the urgency to the State Department people they spoke with
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-04-18 11:50  

#5  NOW she's concerned.

She wasn't so concerned back then. You know, before the kabooms.
Posted by: Steve White   2012-04-18 10:46  

#4  How's she concerned for her own skin? The article is all about her concern for the victims of the Mumbai attacks.
Posted by: gromky   2012-04-18 06:16  

#3  Where is Retief when we need him.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2012-04-18 06:07  

#2  Not surprising. State Department employees at embassies abroad are openly contemptuous of everyone but their counterparts at foreign governments.
Posted by: gromky   2012-04-18 05:52  

#1  Typical Muzlim, her only concern is for her own skin even though this is her pigshit husband.
Posted by: Bill Schwarzeneggar1358   2012-04-18 04:46  

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