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US says it shared information with India after Headley's another wife's terror link expose | The United States said on Sunday said that the threat information of general nature was shared with India
after it appeared that another wife of David Headley the key conspirator in the Mumbai attacks, informed American authorities about her husband plotting a terrorist
attack. Pakistan based terrorist outfit Lahkar-e-Toiba attacked Mumbai on
November
26, 2008 in a coordinated manner killing 166 people. Less than a year before LeT
terrorists killed 166 people in Mumbai, a Moroccan woman went to American
authorities
in Pakistan to warn them that she believed her husband was plotting an attack,
The New York Times reports. "Had we known about the timing and other specifics
related to the Mumbai attacks, we would have immediately shared those details
with the government of India ," said Mike Hammer, spokesman of the National
Security
Council, White House. It was not the first time American law enforcement authorities
were warned about Headley, a longtime informer in Pakistan for the United States
Drug Enforcement Administration. Two years earlier, in 2005, an American woman
who was also married to the 50-year-old Headley told federal investigators in
New York that she believed he was a member of the militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba
created and sponsored by ISI. In the four years between the wife's warning and
Headley's capture, Lashkar sent Headley on reconnaissance missions around the
world. During five trips to Mumbai, he scouted targets for the attack using his
US passport and cover as a businessman to circulate freely in areas frequented
by Westerners. He met in Pakistan with terrorist handlers, including a Pakistani
army major accused of helping direct and fund his missions, according to court
documents and anti-terrorism officials. In March, Headley pleaded guilty to charges
of terrorism in the Mumbai attacks and to a failed plot to take and behead hostages
at a Danish newspaper.
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