ISLAMABAD: The trial of the Pakistan-born Canadian businessman Tahawwar Hussain Rana for his alleged role in the Mumbai attacks starting in Chicago today (Monday) could pose difficulties for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to US media reports.
Although, only Rana is on trial, it’s the story of his Pakistani American high-school friend David Coleman Headley, who has turned prosecution witness after pleading guilty to his own role in November 2008 attacks, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
“The US government’s view of Headley — like so much else surrounding the ISI — was murky,” said an unnamed American official cited by The Times. “No agreement exists in Washington on whether the ISI guided Headley and the attacks on Mumbai it’s not very clear,” the official was quoted as saying. A lot of this is going to come out of the trial.
The Wall Street Journal said Headley is expected to testify that the ISI was directly involved in helping the Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out Mumbai attacks. Concerned people here in Islamabad claimed that “you can get every statement from the man in custody and the courts all over the world knew it that relations between world’s top spy agencies ISI and CIA are in divorce stage, no matter what Headley is going to say in US court, he is American citizen.”
Although, only Rana is on trial, it’s the story of his Pakistani American high-school friend David Coleman Headley, who has turned prosecution witness after pleading guilty to his own role in November 2008 attacks, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
“The US government’s view of Headley — like so much else surrounding the ISI — was murky,” said an unnamed American official cited by The Times. “No agreement exists in Washington on whether the ISI guided Headley and the attacks on Mumbai it’s not very clear,” the official was quoted as saying. A lot of this is going to come out of the trial.
The Wall Street Journal said Headley is expected to testify that the ISI was directly involved in helping the Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out Mumbai attacks. Concerned people here in Islamabad claimed that “you can get every statement from the man in custody and the courts all over the world knew it that relations between world’s top spy agencies ISI and CIA are in divorce stage, no matter what Headley is going to say in US court, he is American citizen.”
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