ISI paid for Mumbai trips
Mrityunjay Bose MUMBAI, March 25, 2016, DHNS:
Pakistani-American agent David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani on Thursday said that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) paid for his reconnaissance missions in Mumbai.
This revelation comes as yet another affirmation that the Pakistani spy agency was hand-in-gloves with the Lashkar-e-Toiba in engineering the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
The 56-year-old Headley, a terrorist-turned-approver, also said that post 26/11 terror attacks, the expenses of his trip were borne by Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda.
“Ilyas Kashmiri did,” he said to a specific question during cross-examination by advocate Abdul Wahab Khan, the defence counsel for Sayed Zaibuddiun Ansari, the Indian facing trial.
Asked about details of expenses, he said: “For my March 2009 trip, the expenses was less than a lakh Pakistani rupees.” He, however, said that he was not aware of the total expenses incurred in planning and executing the fidayeen attacks in Mumbai. “I am not sure, I am not aware of it,” he told Additional Sessions Judge G A Sanap, before whom he is appearing through video-conferencing from an undisclosed location in the United States.
When asked about the total expenses incurred in his stay, travel, reconnaissance missions in Mumbai ahead of the blasts, he said: "It was a lot...many lakh rupees." Asked whether it was nearly Rs 30 to 4 lakh, he said: “Not that, much much less.” When Headley was asked a specific question on whether ISI funded the trips before the terror attacks, he said: “Yes”.
This revelation comes as yet another affirmation that the Pakistani spy agency was hand-in-gloves with the Lashkar-e-Toiba in engineering the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
The 56-year-old Headley, a terrorist-turned-approver, also said that post 26/11 terror attacks, the expenses of his trip were borne by Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda.
“Ilyas Kashmiri did,” he said to a specific question during cross-examination by advocate Abdul Wahab Khan, the defence counsel for Sayed Zaibuddiun Ansari, the Indian facing trial.
Asked about details of expenses, he said: “For my March 2009 trip, the expenses was less than a lakh Pakistani rupees.” He, however, said that he was not aware of the total expenses incurred in planning and executing the fidayeen attacks in Mumbai. “I am not sure, I am not aware of it,” he told Additional Sessions Judge G A Sanap, before whom he is appearing through video-conferencing from an undisclosed location in the United States.
When asked about the total expenses incurred in his stay, travel, reconnaissance missions in Mumbai ahead of the blasts, he said: "It was a lot...many lakh rupees." Asked whether it was nearly Rs 30 to 4 lakh, he said: “Not that, much much less.” When Headley was asked a specific question on whether ISI funded the trips before the terror attacks, he said: “Yes”.
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