Washington: Mumbai attacks co-accused
David Headley on Tuesday testified that New Delhi-based National
Defence College is on the hit-list of terrorists as 26/11
mastermind Illiyas Kashmiri believes in this way he can kill
more Indian brigadiers than what the Pakistan Army could not
do in four wars with India.
Within a few months of the Mumbai terror attacks,
Kashmiri, who has now emerged as mastermind of 26/11, met
Headley, and asked him to go to India again to do surveillance
of the National Defence College in New Delhi and a number of
Chhabad Houses in various cities of India.
When Headley, accompanied by Pasha, went to see
Kashmiri in Waziristan in February 2009, he among the
Lashkar-e-Toiba circles had emerged as a "surveillance expert"
thus a key element of the planning of the terrorist attack.
"Kashmiri asked me to return to India. He said that
his leadership was very upset about the recent Israeli strike
on the Gaza strip and (thus) wanted retaliation," Headley said
in response to a question, adding that Kashmiri wanted him to
identify the Chhabad houses in India.
On the way back he was given a list of Chhabad houses
in India by Pasha.
Headley said since he was coming to India again, he
was asked by Kashmiri to also visit National Defence College,
which he described as a prestigious Indian institution that
teaches high level army offices, Colonels and above.
Pasha told him that if "we were able to conduct"
attack on NDC then "we will be able to kill more Brigadiers
than Pakistan has done in the four wars" with India.
PTI
