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<keyword id="64245" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="David-Headley">David Headley</keyword>, the Pakistani-American LeT operative, today deposed before a Mumbai court via video-link after he was made an approver in the 26/11 case. Headley said that he came to India seven times before the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks; he also stated that his main contact in LeT was Sajid Mir, another accused in the case. 
 
In more than seven years since the attacks, this is the first time that Headley deposed before the court. 
 
The deposition through video conference began at 7 AM, in which Headley claimed to be a "true follower of LeT" and said that along with the seven times before the attacks, he has also visited India afterwards, once. 
 
Headley is serving 35 years of prison sentence in the US for his role in the terror attacks. He said that he changed his name from Dawood Gilani to David Headley in 2006 for the ease to enter India and set up some business. 
 
"I applied for change in name on February 5, 2006 in Philadelphia. I changed my name to David Headley to get a new passport under that name. I wanted a new passport so that I could enter India with an American identity. 
 
"After I got a new passport I disclosed it to my colleagues in LeT of which one of them was Sajid Mir, the person with whom I was dealing with. The objective for coming to India was to set up an office/business so that I can live in India. Before the first visit, Sajid Mir gave me instructions to make a general video of Mumbai," Headley said in his video conference. 
 
Headley also stated he furnished all "wrong" information in his Indian visa application "to protect his cover". 
 
On his visits to India, he drew maps, took video footages and scouted several targets for the attacks including the Taj Hotel, Oberoi Hotel and Nariman House, which provided vital information for the 10 LeT terrorists who finally launched the attack. 
 
In December last year, the court had made him an approver in the case and directed him to depose before the court on February 8, to which he had agreed on the condition of being granted pardon, which was accepted with certain conditions. 
 
Last year, Mumbai Police had moved an application before the court, requesting Headley to be tried by the court along with 26/11 key plotter Abu Jundal, given that both were the conspirators and abettors behind the attacks that left 166 people dead. 
 
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Headley says there were 2 failed attempts before 26/11 in Mumbai!

Mumbai attacks accused <keyword id="67323" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="David-Coleman-Headley">David Coleman Headley</keyword> made new revelations about the carnage. 
 
The Pakistani-American terrorist, Headley, said the ISI and LeT majorly funded terror operations in India. 
 
Headley said ISI and LeT financed him at regular intervals and Pakistan native Tahawwur Rana visited Mumbai before the terror strikes. 
Resuming his deposition before a court here today via video-link, the LeT operative also said that RBI has turned down a request to open a bank account for their office in India. 
 
"Tahawur Rana (Headley's associate and a Pakistani native who operated a Chicago-based immigration business) used to send me money from the US in September 2006 when I came to India to do intelligence work on instructions of LeT," he told the court. 
 
The 55-year-old, who recently turned approver in the case, also said that "it was my idea to open an office in India. It was a part of my cover (as an immigration consultant). I had discussed about this with Major Iqbal and Sajid Mir and they both agreed to it." 
 
"I also told Rana that Major Iqbal had asked me to do intelligence work in India. Iqbal told me that if Rana was reluctant to be associated with this (Headley's India operations) then he (Headley) should appeal to his (Rana's) sense of patriotism towards Pakistan," he testified. 
"But Rana was not reluctant and he agreed readily for me to go to India," Headley said. 
 
Earlier on Tuesday, Headley had told the court that terror outfits like LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen were given moral, financial and military support by the Pakistani intelligence agency besides making fresh revelations including about an aborted plan to target Indian defence scientists and famous Siddhivinayak temple here. 
 He said he was working for ISI besides LeT (<keyword id="53557" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lashkar-e-Taiba">Lashkar-e-Taiba</keyword>) and that he knew about ISI official Brigadier Riyaz being the handler of LeT's top commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who was the mastermind of the November 26, 2008 attacks in Mumbai. 
 He named three officials of the Pakistan army and ISI --Colonel Shah, Lt Colonel Hamza and Major Samir Ali - besides retired army officer <keyword id="141753" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Abdul-Rehman">Abdul Rehman</keyword> Pasha who was closely working with LeT and Al-Qaeda. 
 
Headley said his assessment was that ISI and LeT were coordinating with each other. 
 
Headley, who had visited Mumbai seven times to scout for targets, revealed that plans to harm the metropolis had started over a year before the attacks in 2008 and that LeT initially wanted to attack a conference of Indian defence scientists at Taj Mahal Hotel for which even a dummy of the hotel was prepared. 
 
But the plan to target scientists was dropped because of logistical reasons, like difficulty in smuggling in weapons and personnel and lack of details about the schedule of the meet, he said. 
 
The LeT operative had said he had also conducted a recce of the famous Siddhivinayak Temple and Naval air station. 
 
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26/11 Mumbai attacks: David Headley reveals details of operatives, says ISI funded terror operations in India

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