New Delhi: Security agencies on Sunday did not
rule out the possibility of execution of plans by Pak-
based terror outfit Lashker-e-taiba at the places recced by
David Headley, an American terror suspect, arrested in the US
last October.
The areas around Bhaba Atomic Research Centre in Trombay,
film studios, NTPC cold storage are among some of the places
where Headley had conducted reconnaissance till March last
year, official sources said.
The last visit of the US terror suspect was already
believed to finalise synchronised terror strikes on Jewish
houses located in five cities at the instance of
Lashker-e-Taiba.
Headley, born to a Pakistani father and whose earlier
name was Daood Gilani, has been charged by the FBI for
conspiring in the audacious 2008 Mumbai attack, which left
over 160 dead, including six foreigners.
Headley had carried out recce of Israeli airlines -- El
AI-- office located at Cuffe Parade in March this year before
moving to the national capital where he chose to stay in a
small hotel at Pahargunj area adjacent to a Chabad House,
barely 300 metres from the hotel -- De Holiday Inn, they said.
He later travelled to Pushkar in the outskirts of Ajmer
in Rajasthan where he insisted on a room opposite a Jewish
prayer centre claiming he was a Jew and wanted "holy sight".
Headley later moved to Goa where he stayed at a guest
house located in Anjuna village along the coast of Arabian sea
before proceeding towards Pune where he recced the area around
Koregaon Park -- a place where the blast took place last
night.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 23:08