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Making fresh disclosures on the deadly 26/11 attacks, Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley today exposed how ISI and LeT majorly funded terror operations in India and financed him from time to time and that Pakistan native Tahawwur Rana visited Mumbai before the terror strikes. Resuming his deposition before a special Mumbai court today via video-link after a day’s break due to a technical glitch at the US end yesterday, Headley said Mumbra girl Ishrat Jehan was a suicide bomber of LeT.
He revealed that before his visit to India, he received 25,000 US dollars from Major Iqbal and 40, 000 Pak rupees from his handler Sajid Mir. Both belong to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. Besides this, Major Iqbal also gave him counterfeit Indian currency 2-3 times.
He further said that in November 2006 he signed an agreement for his office in Tardeo’s AC market area of Mumbai, with landlord one Mr. Bora. He confirmed that the contents he mentioned in the agreement of his office in Tardeo were true. After the 26/11 attacks, he wanted to close the office but Tahawur Rana wanted to continue working from Mumbai. That is when Headley insisted on Rana returning to US to avoid getting into trouble.
He further said that after opening the office about which Major Iqbal knew, he went to Chicago and then met Tahawur Rana for the first time. Rana then facilitated Headley’s visa formalities. Rana was aware that Headley was working for the LeT and that LeT was a terror outfit. He further informed that all his funding were received through Nariman Point branch of IndusInd Bank and Rana had already warned him that RBI would not grant him permission to start business account.