Headley did recce of 7 RCR
Pakistani-American LeT terrorist David Coleman Headley had videographed the outer boundary of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s residence (7 RCR) after the 26/11 terror attack during his final trip to India in March 2009.
Headley also told the interrogators of the nexus between ISI-Al Qaeda and LeT. He has disclosed that the 26/11 terror attack was not only the handiwork of the ISI but was closely coordinated by the top brass of the Al Qaeda leadership like Illyas Kashmiri of 313 brigade (Al Qaeda) and Abdur Rehman alias Pasha. Incidentally, Pasha joined the Al Qaeda, following his differences with the LeT leadership. Headley said that Pasha told him that “he had met Osama Bin Laden a number of times,.”
Headley further disclosed that he used to “separately brief his ISI handler (Major Iqbal) after each reconnaissance visit to Mumbai’’. He also said that the ISI was fully involved in 26/11 and the money with which the first boat consisting `25 lakh was purchased was provided by the ISI. Headley told the NIA sleuths that “getting a boat loaded with weapons to India had to have been cleared by the Pakistan government authorities’’.
Headley has named serving ISI officers Major Iqbal, Major Sameer Ali, Col Shah, Lt Col Hamza and one Brig Rijaz based in Muzaffarabad who is the handler of the LeT’s chief military commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. He said that ISI DG Sujja Pasha had visited a Mumbai attack conspirator Zakki in Udial jail to understand the Mumbai attack conspiracy. He explained that “every important member of LeT is handled by one or more ISI officials.”
Headley confessed that he had told his handlers that “ an attack on the National Defence College in the capital could kill more Indian military officers than had been killed in all the wars between India and Pakistan since it was a vulnerable target’’. An attack on the Delhi Chabad House at Pahargunj was also discussed which Abdur Rehman felt could be carried out by the LeT wing in Nepal. It was during the first week of February 2006 that Headley visited the US and “pursued” his move to change his name from Daood Gilani to David Headley. During the course of interrogation, he revealed: “I could complete my work in a couple of days.”
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