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Fwd: Extradite CIA Agent David Headley: March to American Centre, Churchgate Stn (E), 29/03/10, 4.30pm onwards



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BHARAT BACHAO ANDOLAN

"FOR A NATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM, ZIONISM & BRAHMANISM"

:DEFEND THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION - DEFEND DEMOCRACY:

"DEADLY-HEADLEY = CIA / FBI = MUMBAI 26/11 TERROR ATTACK" 

"CIA AGENT HEADLEY: PROVES AMERICAN COMPLICITY IN MUMBAI 26/11 TERROR ATTACK"

"EXTRADITE DAVID HEADLEY TO INDIA"

"AMERICAN-ISRAELI IMPERIALISTS - QUIT INDIA"

:PROGRAMME:

MARCH TO THE AMERICAN (TERROR) CENTRE, NEW MARINE LINES.

WE WILL CONGREGATE AT CHURCHGATE RLY STN (EAST),

ON THE LARGE FOOTPATH & THEN MARCH ON . . . 

DATE: 29TH MARCH, 2010 (MONDAY) / TIME: 4.30pm ONWARDS . . . .

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DAVIS COLEMAN HEADLEY IS A CIA-FBI AGENT & 

USA is COMPLICIT IN THE MUMBAI 26/11 TERROR ATTACKS!!

The Government should be ashamed at the treatment being meted out to India by the US. It is clear that Headley is a mass murderer & is being protected & shielded by the Obama Administration. Leave alone being extradited, now Attorney-General Eric Holder tells us that that our security agencies will have no direct access to Headley at all. This is very clear from the statements of  Timothy J. Roemer (US Ambassador) who stated that "no decision on direct access for India to David Headley has been made."

It is clear to all who are sound if mind, as undoubtedly David Coleman Headley is a CIA-FBI operative whose task was to organize & expedite the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks. Thus the role of the CIA, FBI & Mossad in fomenting & planning the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks are proved beyond doubt & need to be investigated by the patriotic elements within the security apparatus & the media. Only the naive & corrupt can continue to deny this fact, more so to the detriment of our national sovereignty & security.

David Headley is a CIA asset & they have invested a lot of their precious resources in training him & therefore they are going to atrocious levels to protect him. The CIA always does. Thus under the cover of the American Judicial system, Headley will disappear into the prisons, soon acquire a new identity, new papers & documents, passports & Visas, Credit Cards & Bank Accounts . . . & will resurface, doing what he is best at, a terrorist-drug dealer-mercenary. 

Undoubtedly, the CIA-FBI, which are the world's leading mercenary agencies, whose forte is too engineer assassinations, terror & wars, has infiltrated sections of the Indian political leadership & our internal security, as it has the Pakistani ISI, Military & Political establishment.

Thus now the US intervention & occupation of the South Asian region is deepening by the day, as it keeps on increasing the tensions between India & Pakistan as well as China. It is an old imperial ploy of divide & rule along religious & sectarian lines as well as between nations.

The terror attack Mumbai 26/11, was directed at all of South Asia & this point must be understood by all those who are committed to the cause of South Asia.

The 26/11 terror attack has only aided the US/Israeli effort to create an atmosphere conducive to increasing its pervasive & corrupting influence in determining both our National & International policies. Very true indeed!!

Now the newspapers are clearly raising the issue of Headley being a CIA-FBI operative, a fact that we had stated initially as soon as the story appeared. The reports also state that the CIA was aware about the Headley-Rana linkage! Indian authorities had suspected that Headley was a CIA agent. There are taped conversations between Headley & Rana. 

Moreover, the simple fact of the matter is that Headley is involved in the terror attack & should be immediately extradited to the Indian authorities for interrogation & should be tried & sentenced like Kasab (who is a mere foot-soldier & his trial is a contrived circus, despite all the media attention)

In the news report that appeared in the Indian Express (pg 5, 10/12/09), the hotel owner is openly blaming the police for having 'misplaced' Headley's 'C-form' & has filed a complaint on the matter. The hotel owner in his complaint to the Ajmer Superintendent of Police, has stated that he had also submitted the C-forms of two other Israelis along with that of Headley

So why was Headley arrested by the FBI? The answer to that is that Indian Intel was hard on the heels of Headley & were about to arrest him. It was then that the FBI whisked away Headley to protect him. Now that he has been subjected to the laws of the US judicial system, he is beyond our reach. Leave alone a trial for Headley's central role in the 26/11 attacks, we do not even have the right to interrogate him.

In fact it is suspected that, it was Headley who was the CIA mole in the LeT, who was passing out information on the coming 26/11 terror attack. This was partly shared by the CIA with the Indian authorities & had specifically mentioned the Taj & that the attack would come by sea. 

There are two significant points to note:

1) How much information did the CIA actually divulge to India - very very meagre it is clear.

2) More intriguingly with the Pakistani authorities & it's friends in the ISI & the Military with which the CIA has a very deep & intimate relationship, stretching over 6 decades - it supposedly shared none !!!

Any moron is full aware that a 26/11 style attack could lead to a war, in fact a nuclear war between India & Pakistan, then why did not the CIA warn it's friends on either side & thus prevent the attack ??

For the simple reason that it is in the strategic interests of the US & Israel to create a warlike situation across South Asia. The larger objective is for India to mobilise & deploy it's military into the war theatre in Afghanistan if required & later in the coming war on Iran, which is imminent. The tensions & warmongering has now fuelled an arms race & both the countries are amongst the top buyers of weapons, required to protect their half-starving masses.

Also do note that during the phase of the worst series of terror attacks between 2006-08, Headley was present in that period & was flying into India mainly from Pakistan. Yet our authorities did not once suspect or interrogate him?? Unfortunately the Indian People are not that naive. This clearly means that there are certain forces within the country that are allied to the US & Israel & working in tandem to foment terror attacks.

Do especially note the period between August 2007 & September 2008 as this was during which we passed through the worst national crisis over the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. The attacks coincide with Headleys' presence in India (Josy Joseph, 17/11/09, DNA ). The terror attacks in Hyderabad II (25/8/07), Bangalore (25/7/08), Ahmedabad & Surat (26/7/08) & Delhi (13/9/08). All these blasts made it easier for the pro-US elements to take the country into the American-Israeli strategic orbit in the name of fighting the global war on terror.

Again even the blasts that Shri Hemant Karkare has traced to the Abhinav Bharat, find a relation to Headley's footprints. Thus he is present during Malegaon (8/9/06), Samjhauta Express (19/2/07), Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad I (18/5/07). 

Thus clearly Headley was also co-ordinating his attacks with the Abhinav Bharat & Sanatan Sanstha as well as with the Indian Mujahedeen (which is a creation of Intel services comprising criminals & informers from within the Muslim community).

We thus can infer the following from the latest revelation:

1) David Headley's trail as he traveled across the country to & identify the sites for terror attacks was & is being covered up by the police on the instructions of the pro-CIA/Mossad sections of the Intelligence Bureau.

2) This was the similar case in the city of Mumbai, where Headley's membership form at the 'Moksh Gymnasium' had both his photograph & signature 'missing'. The flat which he rented on Bridge Candy has no agreement papers & so is the case with his office in Tardeo.

3) The fact that the hotel owner also submitted two forms of Israeli's on that day, also could mean that Headley was also being guided by Mossad agents to identify Jewish targets, which they finally did & thus Nariman House.

4) Headley's very entry into the country has been managed with the connivance of the authorities at the highest levels. And thus even though Headley was a drug dealer having faced a jail sentence, Pakistani born, could still manage to get a clearance. Also do note that he was travelling directly via Pakistan into India. The clearance of his Visa from the Indian Consulate in Chicago actually requires criminal proceedings against the Indian Consul general, the Indian Ambassador & the Minister & the concerned officers in the Home Ministry in Delhi. That was the reason that the authorities panicked & said that Headley's papers at the Chicago Consulate had gone missing. They later found them. With changed signatures, we guess!

5) It is clear that after working for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Headley was later was recruited & trained by the CIA-FBI.

6) The CIA-FBI then used Headley in their plan to execute the 26/11 attack in Mumbai. Headley's task was to travel across the country, identify the targets & provide information to his CIA-FBI handlers. It was the CIA-FBI who then passed the information onto their ISI / LeT contacts in Pakistan.

7) Headley's role was also to draw in his LeT contacts to plan the 26/11 terror attacks. 

8) The IB, that has been colluding with the CIA-FBI, instructed it's plants within the police force to cover Headley's trail, which they dutifully performed as is the case both in Mumbai & in Pushkar.

Thus as our inference on the Headley matter is the following:

a) It proves the fact that David Headley was a CIA-FBI agent sent to India to assist in the preparation & implementation of the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks.

b) The US intelligence, led by the CIA-FBI & the Israeli MOSSAD played a central role in co-ordinating the attack America is complicit in the planning, financing & execution of the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks.

c) The CIA-FBI used their LeT / ISI agents in Pakistan to implement the same

d) Similarly the CIA-FBI along with certain elements & organizations within India were instrumental in fomenting the terror attack.

Undoubtedly the larger strategic objectives of the Imperial gameplan are being achieved, out of which one was to establish the CIA-FBI & Mossad as our allies & thus penetrate & undermine our external & internal security structures.

Just imagine, the CIA-FBI & Mossad are the sword arms of the Imperial project & not a whimper of protest from the secular-liberals or from the anti-Imperialist Left. Even the Obama Af-Pak surge has been barely opposed even though it deepens the US occupation of the South Asian region.

This only goes to prove as to how successful the Imperial strategy has been in creating an atmosphere for US meddling & intervention across South Asia & in neutralising the Left, Bahujans & the Muslim community by systematically promoting Islamophobia by deploying the weapon of terror.

But the Indian masses are far smarter & both the issues of the planned assassination of Shaheed Hemant Karakare & the Headley episode, have helped the People arrive at their own independent conclusions despite the disinformation campaigns unleashed by the pro-US/israeli elements within the Indian Government & the Corporate Media.

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Subject: "HEADLEY & 26/11 : U.S. PLAYS DIRTY ON INDIA" - B.RAMAN (Ex-Director of RAW)

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers38%5Cpaper3722.html
Paper no. 3722  
18 - Mar - 2010


Headley & 26/11: US Plays Dirty on India - International Terrorism Monitor --- Paper No. 632
By B. Raman


Ever since the case of David Coleman Headley broke out in October, 2009, I have been repeatedly pointing out the following in my articles and TV interviews:

Headley was a quadruple agent, who was working for the USA's Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET).


* The FBI has already reached a plea bargain with him in order to avoid any formal production of evidence against him in the court which might result in details regarding his links with the US intelligence coming out.
        

* The FBI would not extradite him to India and would not allow the Indian agencies to have access to him in order to prevent the Indian agencies from questioning him about his links with the US intelligence on the one side and with the Pakistani intelligence on the other.


2.  Extracts from two articles on this subject written by me on December 12 and 16, 2009, are annexed. What I have been writing and what I have been saying for the last five months has proved correct. The media has reported on the morning of March 18, 2010, thatHeadley was going to plead guilty to some charges as part of a plea bargain process entered into by him with the FBI. What does it mean? Firstly, there will be no formal introduction of the evidence against him and no cross-examination. Secondly, the relatives of the 166 innocent persons killed in the Mumbai 26/11 terrorist strikes cannot seek the permission of the court to be represented by a lawyer to question him on the details of his involvement in the 26/11 terrorist strikes. Thirdly, the details of his links with the US intelligence community will be covered up. Fourthly, the two Pakistani nationals living in Pakistan----Ilyas Kashmiri of the 313 Brigade, who had threatened terrorist strikes in India during the major sports events of this year, and Maj. (retd) Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed alias Pasha of the Pakistan Army, who have been cited as co-accused in the FBI case against Headleybecause of their role as his handling officers, will escape prosecution.

    
3.  Unless one is naive beyond redemption, it was clear  from the beginning  that the Obama Administration and its FBI were trying frantically to prevent the truth regardingHeadley from coming out. I wrote on December 12, 2009: "Senior officials of the White House and the FBI have been taking close and unusual interest in the investigation and prosecution. The Director of the FBI himself was reported to have visited Chicago beforeHeadley was produced before the court. Many in India have analysed this as indicative of the close interest taken by President Obama in counter-terrorism co-operation with India.A more plausible explanation is that this is indicative of the concerns in the White House and the FBI that if the prosecution is not properly handled, the case could result in a bombshell if it emerges that one of the active conspirators of 26/11 was an agent of a US agency. This could lead to suits for heavy damages against the US Government from the relatives of the Americans, Israelis and other foreigners killed."

4.  Headley will be protected. The FBI will be protected. The US administration will be protected. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) will be protected. The Pakistani Government and its Army will be protected.


5.  Only we poor Indians will remain unprotected because the Govt. of India headed by Dr.Manmohan Singh cannot protect us.


6.  What naivete, Mr.Prime Minister! What naivete!



( The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. )

E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com



ANNEXURE I


(Extracts from my article of December 12,2009, titled " FBI Avoiding Focus onHeadley's Links With Narcotics Control Agency" at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3545.html)



Sections of the US media have pointed out that the fact that the report filed against him by the FBI in the court on December 7 was called a Criminal Information Report and not an indictment indicates that the FBI has already reached a plea bargain deal with him under which as a quid pro quo for his admitting some charges when the trial formally commences next month, the FBI will not press other charges against him. His admitting some charges and the FBI dropping other charges will obviate the need for an elaborate trial with the introduction of detailed evidence.


This would prevent any deliberate or inadvertent disclosure by him of his work in the Af-Pak region for the DEA, which works in close co-operation with its Pakistani counterpart. The two have many joint operations.


It is very likely that the US will not allow his independent interrogation by Indian investigators and that it will not agree to his extradition to India as that might result in the Indian authorities coming to know not only of his contacts with Pakistani agencies, but also with the DEA.


Senior officials of the White House and the FBI have been taking close and unusual interest in the investigation and prosecution. The Director of the FBI himself was reported to have visited Chicago before Headley was produced before the court. Many in India have analysed this as indicative of the close interest taken by President Obama in counter-terrorism co-operation with India. A more plausible explanation is that this is indicative of the concerns in the White House and the FBI that if the prosecution is not properly handled, the case could result in a bombshell if it emerges that one of the active conspirators of 26/11 was an agent of a US agency. This could lead to suits for heavy damages against the US Government from the relatives of the Americans, Israelis and other foreigners killed.


ANNEXURE II

( Extracts from my article of December 16,2009, titled " "Headley: A Quadruple Agent" - 
at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3552.html )



By studying these extracts submitted by the FBI along with other FBI documents submitted by the FBI to the court and US media reports about Headley's links with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),one can make the following assessment:

a.  Headley was not a double agent, but a quadruple agent. He initially started working for the DEA around 1998. Even if one presumes that initially the FBI and the CIA were not aware of this, they should have become aware of this by 2004 when the National Counter-Terrorism Centre with a common charter and a common data-base was set up by the Bush Administration under the newly-created post of Director National Intelligence (DNI).

b.  He started working for the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) sometime in 2005. It is not clear whether he joined the LET at his own instance or at the instance of the FBI or the CIA or both in order to penetrate it. He was already visiting Pakistan at the instance of the DEA since 1998. Since 2006, he started visiting India too. The DEA and the FBI would have been aware of his visits since every time a conscious agent of an agency travels abroad his passport is scrutinized by the controlling agency on his return. This is a security precaution followed by all intelligence agencies.

c.  He started working for the 313 Brigade of Ilyas Kashmiri towards the end of 2008 and agreed to visit Copenhagen to collect operational information for a possible terrorist attack. This was probably not at the instance of the FBI, which came to know accidentally of Headley volunteering himself to undertake a task in Copenhagen   while monitoring the chat room of the old students of the Army Cadet School at Hasan Abdal. Both Headley and Rana studied in the school. The FBI putHeadley under electronic surveillance after obtaining orders of a relevant court.

d.  While doing the electronic surveillance to monitor his involvement in the Northern or Copenhagen or Micky Mouse project for the 313 Brigade, the FBI came across a series of E-mail intercepts in July and August, 2009, which showed that Headley had helped the LET in preparing itself for the 26/11 terrorist strikes and had agreed to help the LET in carrying out another terrorist strike in India for which he was to visit India. The FBI started monitoring the meetings and conversations of Headley and Rana and recorded their conversation of September 7, 2009, in a car which clearly indicated their involvement in the 26/11 terrorist strike.

e.  The communications between Headley and his LET handler intercepted by the FBI in July and August also indicated that he was planning to visit India in October to prepare the ground for another terrorist strike. The FBI had two options---either allow him to go to India, alert the Indian intelligence and keep him under surveillance or arrest him before he left for Pakistan and India. If he had been allowed to go to India, watched there and arrested by the Indian intelligence, his past contacts with the US agencies and his role in 26/11 would have come to the notice of the Indian authorities. There is no evidence so far to show that till July 2009 the FBI was aware of his active role in 26/11. They were probably only aware of his frequent visits to Pakistan and India on behalf of the DEA operations. The FBI arrested him when he was about to leave for Pakistan and India on October 3.
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J  osy Joseph / DNA
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 0:50 IST





New Delhi: Call it a bizarre coincidence but investigators are beginning to suspect an eerie connection between the timing of David Coleman Headley's India visits and the series of bomb blasts and terror strikes that rocked the country between 2006 and 2008.


A majority of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative's visits to India coincided with the attacks, which took place either just after he left the country, or just prior to his arrival. He was in the country in 2008, when bomb blasts had rocked Ahmedabad and Bangalore.

Sources say that many within the establishment are beginning to wonder why immigration authorities did not question Headley's movements at the time. He had often entered India through, as well as exited from the country to, Pakistan. His immigration forms were not properly filled on some occasions while, on others, his place of stay was marked incorrectly. "All this should have raised questions. But I suppose his American name was a great cover," says one officer.

The bomb blasts in New Delhi on the eve of Diwali in 2005 seemed to have been the starting point for a series of terror strikes in major cities in India. Subsequently, the number of major attacks outside of Jammu & Kashmir began to gain momentum and peaked with the Mumbai attacks last year in November.

Now, almost a year after the 26/11 carnage, and with several new angles to LeT operations emerging afresh after the arrest ofHeadley and his associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana, sources are beginning to take a deeper look into the movements of the duo in South Asia.

Headley's first trip to India was on a US passport 097536400, after he changed his name from Daood Gilani, on September 14. He came in from Karachi to Mumbai, and stayed for three months.

Six days before he landed, Malegaon was ripped apart by a series of blasts that killed 37 people. The police claim it was a LeT-SIMI plot.

The next time Headley landed in Mumbai was on February 22, 2007, just three days after the Samjhauta Express train blast. While the perpetrators of the blast remain a mystery, there has been evidence to point fingers at both Islamic terrorists as well as Hindu fringe groups.

His next visit lasted 53 days, after he landed in Mumbai from Colombo. Headley thereafter returned to Mumbai from Dubai on May 17. A day after he left, a blast took place at the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad during Friday prayers.

In May-June 2007, Headley spent 18 days in Mumbai, coming in via Dubai. There were no immediate attacks but, three months later, Hyderabad is hit again, this time with three explosions that kill over 40 people. Intelligence agencies had then pointed fingers at the LeT-HUJI network in which Hyderabad resident Shahid Bilal was a key player. A few years before the blast, Bilal had gone to Pakistan where he emerged as a key terror player and helped LeT-HUJI recruit youngsters from Andhra Pradesh and elsewhere. Bilal was mysteriously shot dead a few months later in Karachi.

Headley visited Mumbai twice in the September-November 2007 period. Once, he came in from Dubai and the second time from Lahore to Delhi, and returning to Lahore subsequently. Investigators believe that it was during those trips that Headley may have started recording the targets and making other preparations for the 26/11 attacks - that is, if he was a part of the conspiracy.

Increasingly, Headley had also started coming into India directly from Pakistan, not via Dubai or any other stop.

Headley next arrived in Mumbai in April 2008, just for six days. Within a month of his leaving, serial blasts rocked Jaipur on May 13.

The next trip, lasting a month in July 2008, saw two serial blasts rocking the country. First, on July 25, a series of small bombs rock Bangalore, and the attack remained a mystery for long. In recent times, the Bangalore police have claimed that it was the handiwork of a group of Islamic terrorists and was planned in Kerala.

A day later, over 15 bombs went off in Ahmedabad, killing almost 50 people. The Indian Mujahideen, a shadow terror group, challenged the government to stop them in an email sent minutes before the attack.

Two months later, Delhi was shaken by serial blasts on September 13.

Months later, Tahawwur Hussain Rana landed in India, on November 12, 2008 on a business visa that was valid until the 30th of last month. He and his wife visited Kochi among other places and left via Dubai for Chicago on November 21. Five days later, the 10 terrorists landed in Mumbai to carry out the 26/11 mayhem.

Sources in the security establishment are still struggling to figure out what exactly were Rana and Headley up to. Was is just a reccee or were they recruiting foot-soldiers for terrorist strikes?

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