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David Headley returned to Mumbai in March 2009, only a few months after the attack, according to reports, to survey new objectives and evaluate psychological sequelae.
David Headley visited Mumbai in March 2009 to evaluate the consequences of attack 26/11.
On a sensual November night in 2008, ten strongly armed gunmen arrived by sea, bringing with him a wave of horror that changed the history of Mumbai forever. The shots and grenades resonated in hotels and train stations and by the end of the siege, 166 lives had been lost and the spirit of the city was marked. Now, more than 16 years later, a decisive step towards justice has been the tasks.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key accused in the terrorist attacks of Mumbai, has finally been extradited from the United States and is now under the custody of the National Research Agency (NIA). A friend of David Headley’s childhood, the American Pakistani operation who made recognition for attacks, Rana is accused of helping to orchestrate one of the most mortal terrorist strikes in history.
The authorities say Rana, a Canadian born in Pakistani who directed an immigration services company with offices in Mumbai, provided coverage of the undercover missions of Headley in India. His business offered Headley the perfect front to move without being detected while surveying potential objectives in the months prior to butcher shop.
The researchers say that Headley, born Dawood Sayed Geelani, visited India several times between 2006 and 2008. During these visits, he photographed and mapped key locations, including the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, the Oberoi Trident, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Nariman House, all the sites that were later put under the SIE. Headley’s intelligence collection was crucial for Lashkar-E-Taiba (LET), the Pakistan-based terrorist group behind the attack.
But perhaps more disturbingly, Headley did not stop just after blood spill. According to intelligence sources and judicial statements, they returned to India in March 2009, only a few months after the attack, according to reports, new objectives and evaluate psychological sequelae. Disguised and moving under the radar, he visited Delhi, Mumbai and other cities, successful evasion detection.
These revelations arose only after Headley was arrested in the United States in 2009. His confession to the US authorities brought the member of the International Conspirators network behind the 26/11 terrorist attack. It was also through Headley’s testimony that the depth of frog participation came to light. In the intercepted conversations between the two, public made by the US authorities, the attack is listened to the attack and suggest that terrorists should receive the highest military honor of Pakistan, the Nishan-E-Haider.
Although David Headley remains imprisoned in the United States, protected from extradition due to a PLAEA agreement, his associate is now within the scope of NIA. Rana extradition marks a rare diplomatic and legal advance, and one that officials expect the broader impulse for responsibility to revive, not only for the soldiers of the feet, but for the intellectual authors who manipulated the events of the scenes.