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2010-03-20 Fifth Column

LeT's David Headley Pleads Guilty, Escapes Death and Extradition - (Holder sigh!)

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Posted by 3dc 2010-03-20 11:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Final Plea Agreement - PDF

Posted by 3dc 2010-03-20 11:03|| 2010-03-20 11:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Indian people i know believe he was a CIA agent?

Posted by Kofi Thinese2517 2010-03-20 11:18|| 2010-03-20 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Indian people i know believe he was a CIA agent?

That sounds like Pakistani conspiracy thinking, Kofi Thinese2517. Even President Obama isn't stupid enough to order such a thing, and the Mumbai attack took place on his predecessor's watch. It was President Bush who believes America's future is tied to India's, so he would never have ordered such a thing... and I can't imagine the CIA being connected to such a terror attack.

Posted by trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-20 13:08|| 2010-03-20 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Rumors of David Headley, rogue CIA asset

David Headley was convicted on heroin smuggling charges in 1998, and the available evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the following year he did undercover surveillance work in Pakistan for the DEA in exchange for a reduced sentence. During his time in Pakistan in 1999, his surveillance target was reportedly a drug gang based in Afghanistan/Pakistan. This has given rise to speculation among Indian officials that Headley's work for the US government may have gone beyond the DEA. The speculation holds that DEA may have passed Headley on to the CIA, given his experience in Pakistan, and the CIA in turn used Hadley to infiltrate Lashkar-e-Taiba. These rumors do not contend that the Mumbai attacks were thus a CIA operation; rather, they suggest that Headley had "gone rogue" by 2006 and thrown his lot in with LeT completely. Gerald Posner has a piece in the Daily Beast that does a good job of showing the factual backdrop that fueled this speculation.

I should say at the outset that the rumors are by no means completely outlandish, but I do not think they're correct. I spoke with a senior US intelligence official today who works on Afghanistan/Pakistan, and told me unequivocally that Headley was never a CIA asset.

Posted by john frum 2010-03-20 13:41|| 2010-03-20 13:41|| Front Page Top

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