Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Headley has admitted to interrogators from the National Investigation Agency that he filmed the outer boundary of the Prime Minister?s residence during his last trip to New Delhi in March 2009.
But his claim was disputed by the officials here.
US born Headley, a member of LeT since 2002, told his interrogators that the security around the PM residence on 7, Race Course Road, was too tight to penetrate, sources said.
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According to Headley?s statement to interrogators, Delhi escaped a major terror attack last year when an LeT terrorist from Rawalpindi in Pakistan, who tried to come in through the legal channel, was denied an Indian visa.
The terrorist was supposed to be in Delhi to carry out an attack on the National Defence College at Tees January Marg ? a target recommended by Headley to his bosses on the basis that a strike on the institution would have killed more Indian Army officers than those who died in all Indo-Pak wars put together, a stunning revelation.
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Headley had earlier disclosed in detail how Pakistan?s ISI had been behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, and made plans for other terror strikes in Delhi, Pune, Goa and Pushkar in due course.
ISI paid for at least two of Headley?s recce missions.
In his statement to the National Investigation Agency, David Coleman Headley repeated what he had earlier told the US?s FBI.
As already known, Headley had recceed several targets in the Capital ? the Sena Bhawan, Raksha Bhawan , vice-president?s residence, Israeli embassy and Chabad House in Paharganj area, a published report on Wednesday said.