Convicted LeT terrorist Headley liked Indian food and people, but not India

New York, Nov 22 (PTI) Convicted LeT terrorist David Coleman Headley liked Indian food and Indian people, but had a hatred for India as a nation. "I like everything about India .... I like the food, the people. But I don't like India," Headley told an Indian counter-terror official familiar with his questioning by Indian investigators in Chicago last year. Headley, who spent a long stint in India reconnoitering hit sites for the LeT before they carried out the bloody 26/11 Mumbai massacres three years back, talked about his "conflicted relationship" with India during his de-briefing with Indian investigators. According to a new report by investigative journalist Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica, Headley watched the coverage of the Mumbai attacks on TV with his Moroccan wife Faiza Outalha. As 10 LeT terrorists carried out their deadly 26/11 assault across Mumbai, his Pakistani wife Shazia, who lives with her children in Chicago, congratulated him on the terror attacks calling it his "graduation ceremony" and a "movie" that she watched the whole day on TV. Headley was at his home in Lahore when the LeT terrorists gunned down 166 people, including six Americans at luxury hotels, a railway station and a Jewish community centre in Mumbai, sites that he had recced and provided detailed information about to his Pakistani handlers. He received a text message from Sajid Mir, one of the LeT masterminds behind the Mumbai attacks, on that black November day asking him to "turn on your television." PTI