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Home Front: WoT

Paid DEA Informant Scouted out Mumbai Attacks

2010-10-17

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

#2 *** cough *** cough ***CIA-PENN-STATE-ZARQHAWI***cough ***cough........

D *** NGED PRINGLES "SOUR CREAM-N-ONIONS"!

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-17 21:13

#1 Similarly, a federal official described the 2005 tip from Headley's U.S. wife to the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City as "general in nature." "The JTTF could not link the information to a specific threat, plot or terrorist group," the official said.

Can't "link" anything to MAJ Hasan at Fort Hood either. We know thier dirty as hell, we'll just keep paying them and harvest the reporting eh?

Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-17 12:33

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