Mumbai : On the fourth and last day of his deposition, David Headley claimed that the National Investigations Agency (NIA) did not record his statements about the then Lashkar-e-Taiba top commander Muzammil Bhatt. He alleged that the Indian investigating agency did not record the statements that he gave regarding various aspects of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. He told the court that the agency did not record the ‘exact’ words which he used during the interrogation in US.
He raised doubts on the investigating agency saying that the agency did not read out his statements to him post the interrogation and also that the copy of his testimony was not provided by NIA.
Headley was speaking about some statements he gave regarding Muzammil Bhatt and the alleged Lashkar operative Ishrat Jahan who was gunned down by the police in Gujarat. He told the court that in 2003, he was introduced to Muzammil Bhatt as a top commander of LeT who executed the Akshardham Temple strikes and the Ishrat Jahan matter by the then LeT chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. He also stated that he knew of Jahan’s case through the media.
Headley informed the court that in his 2010 interrogation by the NIA, he had stated about Ishrat Jahan saying, “a female member who died in an encounter in India was Ishrat Jahan and she was an LeT operative but I do not know why the agency did not recorded this.”
He clarified that Lakhvi introduced him to Bhatt, but did not referred to him (Bhatt) sarcarstically that he was top commander whose every major operation had failed.
But when the copy of his statement’s to NIA were tendered to him (which said that Lakhvi sarcastically referred Bhatt as a top commander whose major plans fail), he said, “I cannot explain why NIA did not did not record my statement in my exact words.”
He also informed the court that this was for the first time that he was being shown his statement in the court as the NIA never gave him a copy of his statements. Headley also said that he told NIA about Bhatt being the head of the group (LeT) before Sajid Mir.
Later, after Headley was confronted with his own statements and asked why information that he gave about Bhat has not been recorded, he instantly said he cannot explain this.
Believed that US, Israel and India are ‘enemies’ of Islam
On his fourth day of deposition from an unknown place in US, the Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, shedding some light for his evil intentions towards India said that at one point he believed that the Unites States, Israel and India were the ‘enemies of Islam’. He however, clarified that he had no plans to establish ‘Islamic’ rule over India.
The former operative of Lashkar also accepted that the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai were result of the bombings on his school done by Indian Air Craft. The 55 year-old terrorist had on Friday revealed that hatred towards India and its people nurtured in him after his school was bombed by the Indian planes during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. He had also said that this hatred feeling led him to join the terrorist outfit – Lashkar-e-Taiba.
