As a parent is good as are other special dos. Gingerbread called again. Thats my favorite. Those is my favorite. The i. S. I. Has been an important partner for the west in the war on terrorism also for germanys Foreign Intelligence Agency the b. And d. The skip in intelligence work there is no such thing as the good guys and the bad guys. Pass and twenty fourteen bad guys started to target europe and attack on the Jewish Museum in brussels then in paris copenhagen paris again and brussels again. The attacks for remarkable similarities says former cia director retired general Michael Hayden. But they did in brussels with what they did in purse looked an awful lot like man back. In two thousand and eight ten terrorists stormed multiple targets in a three day siege and killed one hundred sixty six people desolate bowman is still haunted by the memory of the attacks he said i wouldnt wish that fear on my worst enemy. Liftons a Flight Attendant density bomb and was travelling to india for the first time. On the evening of november twenty sixth two thousand and eight she went to the loo put cafe in mumbai together with fellow crew members. I believe it was a huge bang i had no idea what it was then there was another bang and then it really started Bam Bam Bam Bam bam bam. To attack and started shooting assault rifles firing over one hundred twenty rounds in the space of a few minutes it was then that we knew there was still there and that they had reloaded. Then i heard steps on broken glass making split. So steps kept coming close are. My new now hes standing next to me. The attackers searched for survivors and shot them in cold blood. Then they left the cafe. And thats when a colleague of mine screamed get out now. The ground was covered in countless bodies. But in that instant your survival instinct takes over. You just put one foot in front of the other and try not to see whats 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 mumbais 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 was seen across the world. And 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. Headless First Contact with the Law Enforcement agency was a nine hundred eighty eight he was detained at Frankfurt Airport as he tried to smuggle heroin from pakistan into the u. S. Journalist Sebastian Rotella is an expert on head lease roll. He investigated the story for the New York Times and the Washington Post his sources included documents leaked by edward snowden. One of the turning points in his life is that arrest at the Frankfurt Airport in germany in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he gets caught by a customs agent but i think that is already on to him so he quickly becomes an informant and manages to goes to prison but for less time because he helps the dea a bust of the people he was working with and the heroin deal. He began working for the u. S. Drug Enforcement Administration but he also continued dealing then in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. He was course again how it leader was his defense lawyer he had a rather interesting physical attribute with his eyes when i was one called the other i was a different color so there was no rest being gay that he had right he was in jail he was desperate to get out of desperate to get out of jail. And he wanted to if possible cooperate with the government to get a second deal was struck after just six months had he was released from jail on probation as an informant on new yorks drug scene. But then came the nine eleven attacks killing three thousand people and injuring countless more. This is when David Headley switched from drug thats to terrorists and. After the nine eleven attacks the authorities were inundated with tips and among those that avalanche of tips that comes in is one concerning david Coleman Headley basically one of a woman who was his girlfriend at the time was at a bar and she was talking to a bartender she knew at his bar and talking about her or her boyfriend headley. Had actually been excited about the attacks and edge pressed his interest because he was a packet of pakistani descent of going himself to pakistan to train. He was under suspicion of being a terrorist threat. Ranged at headquarters with his hand at the drug agency and agents from an f. B. I. Task. You can imagine the message that was sent to the investigators yes you have a tip that this guys involved in terrorism but hes our guy and hes so much our guy that were making them available to you in our headquarters the drug Enforcement Administration valid for its informant and prevented further investigation what was very interesting about that was in addition to the fact that ive never heard of such a thing that before was the timing this was shortly after nine eleven and the government i believe at that time was desperate to develop intelligence in any way they could. The u. S. Intelligence had been able to prevent nine eleven now they were doing everything we did and we can have that we can have that. Discussion but you know all the. Counter resolves to do everything within our power and within was to make sure it never happened again. Hadleys still had two and a half years of supervised release ahead of him but the u. S. Government made them and. It is fairly typical for me and colleagues of mine who represent individuals who are supervised release to ask a judge to terminate the release of the supervised release. But to have the government do it. Ive never heard of any other situation like informants with connections to afghanistan and pakistan were in high demand at the time every secret service was desperate to recruit them. It was likely to be cia or f. B. I. Involved the judge she said shed received a submission from the government. And she acknowledged what he was about. Was highly dangerous and she wished him well. Starting in december two thousand and one nato troops including thousands of german soldiers were deployed in afghanistan. Neighboring pakistan and its territory to be used to supply the International Forces becoming a key partner for the western alliance in the war on terror. Germanys Foreign Intelligence Agency had many contacts in the area but the mission in the hindu kush region proved difficult as the former president of the. Explains. On the one hand the b. M. D. Had to gather strategic intelligence on the other hand it had to become operatively and thats where pakistan played an important part. For years. And cia director Michael Hayden was a key figure in the terrorism. But it was the ally from hell and it was a very very difficult ally when i went there and tried to get the pakistanis to do something against. We were just coming from completely different places ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States and the president of the Islamic Republic of pakistan the americans formed a partnership with a problematic pakistan today the countrys former president Pervez Musharraf living in exile he says pakistans relationship with the us was difficult. No there would they need us there take us. Whenever their door neuter or. They really. Dislike him. He. It was into this tense situation in pakistan that the u. S. Government sent David Headley his mission to gather information on terrorist organizations. And the whole headley first came into contact with a terrorist Group Planning attacks outside of pakistan called lashkar e tayyiba. He was recruited into the group by a man with ties to the pakistani secret service. Mir in particular this point is this young rising star and lashkar e tayyiba whos in charge of a lot of the International Operations anyone who has a connection to the west americans french australians was a profile that they can use in the west is of interest and headley becomes one of those people who was recruited by side view mirror. David headley is connection to the terrorist group group this is last time but a demonstration in the home or the group was involved in attacks in afghanistan also against german troops. And played a role for us because it also carried out attacks in afghanistan. So the b. M. D. Was keeping an eye on them along with many other organizations. Cinders pretty says headed to be n. T. From two thousand and five to twenty eleven he visited pakistan frequently and he goes she waited with the i. S. I. For the pakistani. For the pakistanis to those people who could cause trouble for. Including those who could carry out attacks places like afghanistan and in afghanistan were sometimes important helpers to go home home. To. Do you call them to the east i call them or do i did you two things organization over. There the best and youre in the word. Lashkar e tayyiba is one of the most active terrorist groups operating from pakistan its founder and leader hafiz saeed seen speaking here is one of the worlds most wanted terrorists lost her you could see it as a way to get at the world of islamic extremism and to get at al qaeda because they are allies in some ways even though lashkar is a b. T. N. To the Pakistani Intelligence Service and ive is not the i. S. I. Is said to be pakistans most powerful institution a state within the state. So i cut the b. And b. The b. And these key contacts in pakistan were in the i assigned. And because back then. Nothing happened without the i assigned. This is. Everyone knows that behind the scenes another game was being played and. All. Four hung up. Was it actually known that the i. S. I. Was hoodwinking its western partners. Its been. I became president of the b. M. D. In january two thousand and twelve and at that time it was known at least to the b. M. D. That i. S. I. Was basically two faced. And yes three hundred eighty Pakistani Military officials received further training at the military academy of the German Armed Forces in hand it was part of germanys effort to have an untroubled relationship with pakistans leaders. Former i. S. I. Head as at the rani graduated from the military academy in hamburg he was pakistans military attache in germany for four years and ambassador for three years. If you are good you. Saw an article is whatever double game was to talk about People Like Us used. By all means to play these games. As head of the dirani had supported militias which killed thousands of civilians in afghanistan you would find one group roof would be you and i would find another group or no shot supporting them be a big draw out of your norm out of control or. That. Monster. Frankenstein monster according to the german literature i mean 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 who becomes who recruits you know says youre going to work for pakistani intelligence the i. S. I. Not even interpol had a photo of the i. S. I. A tenth major. Hes wanted across the world. Is have look for lost. 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 Headley used his american passport to travel to india pakistans regional rival. Headley open enough this will 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 that was on a par with what the cia would create for some or operation which is not me saying that the cia would go carry out terrorist attacks but if youre going to go carry out an operation of this complexity wherever it is this level of detail. We would go as an American Organization and gather intelligence for a long time and build a really robust package of information most terrorist groups frankly arent capable of doing. This work for the cia for many years it was his job to carry out and manage missions abroad for. Those clues all over the place here as to what was going on and nobodys paying attention to get lazy to get sloppy which you cant do in intelligence work because people get killed when you do in the summer of two thousand and five he was spending some of his time back in new york where he lived with his second wife. His wife in new york very angry at him because shes discovered that he has this other family in pakistan so she calls and phones the tip line and gives a tip to the f. B. I. That goes to the joint Terrorism Task force that her husband is a type and goes to Training Camps in pakistan and sort of sets of the base at some point they call his da handler who is someone who is still in touch with occasionally and the d. A. Have vouchers for him he says as far as i know you know hes not someone who would attack the United States nor is he a terrorist. In two thousand and seven headley married a third woman. He took her to mumbai for their honeymoon. For him it was not. It was. The couple and fines that went to the u. S. Embassy telling them what she suspected. I visited that and they made me look like a crazy person. Buys and made several attempts to warn us authorities but they did not react its a huge mistake its a massive mistake. I mean it just it just adds to the ease with which she is moving around to begin with. In the weeks before the attacks in mumbai the Indian Secret Service received at least five detailed warnings from western intelligence agencies but they were unable to prevent the attacks. The disaster unfolded at the Jewish Community centenary month house attackers took two women hostage. Subject me airhead lees hand at lashkar e tayyiba was steering the attack from pakistan via phone and cruelly misled the hostages dont you think you probably have already thought i was talking to. Them or if. For example. If it was dark right now maybe youre going to. Be a family. You know. The fighting in mumbai lasted three days it wasnt until special commandos from delhi arrived that 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. And that is the reason it is so successful. And so operators. Headley received encrypted congratulates three emails from his pakistani wife and his agency hand to graduation was the code word for the terrorist attack. Carried out this whole operation and hes not done hes not even breaking stride hes going to move on it was as far as i can tell at that point its like im just getting started. Headlee and his back has now set their sights on europe targeting the danish capital copenhagen. Headley travelled there several times he made videos and took photos of potential soft targets the main train station the luxury hotel down to ten of copenhagens main synagogue and the office of the newspaper. Which had published the mohammed caricature. This photo was found on hadley cell phone. What they envision is an attack mumbai style the will get gunmen will storm the newspaper building in the heart of copenhagen take hostages make sure that the media is there the capital of the hostages and throw their heads out the windows and it will happen in the most peaceful unimaginable place possible which is copenhagen. Had least recording a detailed plan for the attack which was given the code name mickey mouse project. His preparations took him back to germany where he sought support his in hamburg. Elliott spent time in hamburg and knew about it and spent time in germany when he was involved in Drug Trafficking and he thought that there was a place where we could find guns or people to the system in the attacks and mark and because of that convergence of underworld involved in crime and drugs but also because it had been a place where there was a lot of islamic extremist activity during his last trip to pakistan headley said its twentieth. He was keen to join Al Qaida Headley beach with Ilyas Kashmiri. This point is one of the most dangerous terrorists in pakistan if not the world so you very seamlessly that the plot transfers to al qaeda among other things he was responsible for a failed bomb attack in new york the cia for him. Hadley very excit