ISI trained Headley in Lahore

Chicago, May 26 (PTI) Dissatisfied with the military
and espionage training received by Mumbai (in the western
Indian state Maharashtra) attacks accused David Headley from
the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan's spy agency ISI provided him a
special course in Lahore for carrying out surveillance ahead
of the 26/11 carnage.
"ISI did provide me (espionage) training," Headley
told a Chicago court as he was grilled by the defence attorney
Charles D Swift on the third day of the trial Thursday of
Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, another co-accused in the
26/11 attacks.
The training by the Pakistan intelligence agency to
Headley was provided by Major Iqbal, who was his ISI handler,
on the streets and in a two-storey safe house in Lahore near
the airport, the 50-year-old Mumbai terror accused told jury
during the course of questioning by Swift.
Headley told the court that when he met Major Iqbal in
2006, he expressed dissatisfaction at the military and
espionage training that he had received from the LeT earlier.
Major Iqbal, who was identified by Headley as
'Chaudhery Khan', told him that the training received from
LeT was "not very good" and was "very elementary", so he
decided to give instructions to him.
It was a two-storey house in a residential
neighbourhood and there was a small compound outside the
house, Headley said when pressed by Swift during the closing
hours on the third day of the trial.
The statements formed part of the testimony of
Headley, who has pleaded guilty.
These disclosures, which further cements India's
charges that elements of ISI were involved in the 26/11, is
also corroborated by information given by federal prosecutors
in the documents to the court, which have been unsealed.