headley used his american passport to travel to india pakistan s regional rival. headley open enough this would be applications he had business cards made and presented himself as a diplomat or businessman as needed. so headley is the invisible man in a place like india. a guy who fits the profile dresses that way spore stays in five star hotels nobody messes with. headley began scouting targets in mumbai he selected the oberoi trident hotel frequented by business people the train station where up to four million childless a day pass through the nariman house the jewish community center with a hostile. to leopold cafe and the luxury taj mahal palace hotel. what headley created for them was on
right now maybe you are going to. have a family. you know. that every. one of. the fighting in mumbai lasted for three days it wasn t until special commandos from delhi have arrived at the attackers could be neutralized. you have to step back and look at this why is this attack so successful it is a state sponsored terrorist attack over sea funded directed by the i.s.i. or totally in conjunction in tandem in teamwork with. the i.s.i.
struck supporting them they re big or out of your norm out of control or. that famous. monster. frankenstein monster according to the german literature to them and that could happen. meanwhile david headley had started a family in the hole he married and had children and lived according to muslim customs in january of two thousand and six headley gets a call from. this guy majoring ball becomes who recruits are going to work for pakistani intelligence the i.s.i. . not even interpol had a face have the i.s.i. . he is wanted across the world. is have them for law. and major eight ball is his handler for the i.s.i. they are sending him to mumbai to do start to do reconnaissance. david coleman
you just put one foot in front of the other and try not to see what s around you. our goal was the taj mahal hotel and we can see that the other end of the street. but the taj mahal palace hotel was already under attack to. the group of gunmen had arrived at mumbai s waterfront in an inflatable dinghy they split up and attacked five targets small taney asli this is security camera footage. police and military were unable to gain control of the situation as the terrorists continue their murderous rampage images of the attacks were seen across the world. in the whole pakistan one man watched his handiwork on t.v. david coleman headley a forty eight year old u.s. citizen was a key figure behind the attacks who is this man. his first contact with
deal these are original recordings from his first interview. when i sat with them. i have a job to do of getting as much information from mr headley as possible and that s what i was focused on the significance of headley was not lost on us at all we understood that he was somebody who clearly had connections with significant individuals and his travel patterns strongly suggested that he had involvement in obviously the most significant terrorist attack ever to take place in india. headley chose to cooperate with u.s. authorities and try to make another deal with the government and again he succeeded . he received a thirty five year prison sentence with a terrorist attacks in mumbai which killed one hundred sixty six people as well as with the planned attacks in copenhagen he did not receive the death penalty and was