According to AIR, in his testimony before a US Court David Headley, a prosecution witness, in the trial of Mumbai attacks and co-accused Tahawwur Rana, a Canadian of Pakistani origin told Judge Harry D Leinenweber the ISI and the LeT coordinated with each other and ISI provided assistance to Lashkar.
The trial began in Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Building on Tuesday. Pakistani-American Headley is also a co-accused.
Headley told Judge Harry D Leinenweber the ISI and the LeT coordinated with each other and ISI provided assistance to Lashkar.
According to Headley, Rana’s old friend from military school in Pakistan, had began laying the groundwork for the attack two years before the attack with 25,000 USD finance from Major Iqbal. Headley said ISI provided help to LeT and that he first started training in Pakistan more than a decade ago with the Lashkar, said the report.
Headley also testified, that LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind behind the 26/11 attacks that killed 166 people, motivated him for carrying out a “jihad” and Saeed told him that the satisfaction of one second of “jihad” is equal to “100 years of worship.”
Headley told the court that LeT operators also chose him because he was an American and that people would least suspect him.