Three years prior to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the FBI was warned of the strikes and David Headley's links with the LeT by the wife of the Pakistani-American terrorist, says an investigative report.
"Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack," according to the report on the 26/11 attacks published by ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom engaged in investigative journalism in the public interest.
"The previously undisclosed allegations against David Coleman Headley, who became a key figure in the plot that killed 166 people, came from his wife after a domestic dispute that resulted in his arrest in 2005," the report said.
The previously undisclosed allegations against Pakistani American Headley, who has confessed to his role in the plot that killed 166 people, came from his wife after a domestic dispute that resulted in his arrest in August 2005, the Washington Post said in a report by ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom.
In three interviews with federal agents, Headley's wife said that he was an active militant in the LeT terrorist group, had trained extensively in its Pakistani camps, and had shopped for night-vision goggles and other equipment, it said citing officials and sources close to the case.
In addition to a detailed account of his activity with LeT, she showed them audio cassettes and ideological material and described his e-mails and calls from Pakistan and to individuals whom she thought to be extremists, the report said.
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