26/11 attacks: ISI provides financial, military support to Lashkar, David Coleman Headley says

MUMBAI: Testifying before a Mumbai court for the second day on Tuesday, terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley disclosed that "Pakistan's ISI provides financial support to Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT).
"David Headley said that ISI provides financial, moral as well as military support to Lashkar," special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told reporters after Headley's deposition.
"I was working for the ISI also and met many people from Pakistani Army," Headley said. Headley, however, denied that he was paid handsomely by the ISI or LeT for his services.
Continuing his deposition via videoconferencing before special judge GA Sanap from a US jail, Headley said that in 2006, ISI official Major Pasha and LeT functionary Sajid Mir and others met to discuss plans to set up a business for (him) Headley in Mumbai.
Later, in November 2007, he met LeT top leaders when the proposed terror attacks on Mumbai were planned in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, he told special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
He also said that the LeT group as a whole was responsible for the terror attacks in India, and it can be speculated that all orders came from its top commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
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Continuing to spill the beans, Headley said, "I met Major Iqbal of ISI in Lahore in early 2006. He asked me to gather military intelligence from India and also try to recruit someone from the Indian military to spy. I told Major Iqbal that I would do as he asked."
Headley, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence in the US for his role in the Mumbai attacks, also revealed that his wife had complained to police about his links with LeT.
"In December 2007, my wife Faiza lodged a complaint with the Racecourse police in Lahore alleging that I had duped her of money.
"In January 2008, she complained to the US Embassy in Islamabad that I was involved in terrorist activities and was closely associated with LeT," he said.
"Later when I asked her about this complaint, she told me that the "US Embassy officials seemed to have believed her"
In his first deposition yesterday, Headley had told the court that Pakistani terrorists attempted to attack Mumbai twice before the 26/11 strikes in Mumbai that killed 166 people but failed both times.
(With inputs from agencies)