A day after the report in US media that 26/11 plotter David Coleman Headley’s terror links were reported by his wife to the FBI in 2005, another story in the New York Times said the terrorist’s second wife, a Moroccan, too had warned the US authorities in Pakistan less than a year before the deadly strikes.
The newspaper said a young Moroccan woman went to American authorities in Pakistan to warn them that she believed her husband, David C. Headley, was plotting an attack.
According to the newspaper, it was not the first time American law enforcement authorities were warned about Headley who was an informer in Pakistan for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
The report by non-profit journalism group ProPublica Saturday said the FBI was told by Headley’s another wife that he was an active militant in the Lashkar-i-Taiba group. She had warned the FBI way back in 2005, three years before the terror strikes in India’s financial capital that killed 166 people.
ProPublica journalist Sebastian Rotella said the federal agents in New York City had investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack, following an arrest of Headley in a domestic dispute after his wife lodged a police complaint.
According to the New York Times report on Sunday, despite the warnings by two of his three wives, “Headley roamed far and wide on Lashkar?s behalf between 2002 and 2009, receiving training in small-caliber weapons and countersurveillance, scouting targets for attacks, and building a network of connections that extended from Chicago to Pakistan?s lawless northwestern frontier.”