The leadership of the ISI was not involved in planning the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, self-confessed plotter David Coleman Headley testified Tuesday. Headley, who pleaded guilty to 12 terror charges arising out of the attacks on India’s financial capital and other unrealized plots, testified that no more than a handful of ISI agents were involved in the Mumbai plot.
“The colonel might have known and someone in the group might have known,” Headley told a Chicago court, referring to one of his alleged ISI handlers. But when asked if he meant that neither the head of the ISI nor its senior leadership was involved, Headley testified “Yes”. Headley also testified briefly about a plot to kill the head of Lockheed Martin in retaliation for the drones it built for the US forces.
