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David Coleman Headley's surveillance videos shot in Denmark in 2008 http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/ndtv-accesses-headleys-denmark-surveillance-videos-108310?from=NDTV Headley: Rana wanted 'bravery award' for terrorists killed in 26/11 hicago/Mumbai: David Coleman Headley has told a Chicago court has that Tahawwur Hussain Rana wanted nine of the 10 terrorists who died in the Mumbai attacks to be given Pakistan's highest military bravery award - the Nishan-e-Haidar. Headley, a Pakistani-American, is the key witness in the trial of Tahawwur Rana, a Chicago businessman accused of helping coordinate the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Headley has already pleaded guilty to laying the groundwork for the Mumbai attacks and has agreed to testify against Rana to avoid the death penalty. On the third day of the trial, David Headley revealed more on the 26/11 terror attacks - this time about the 72-hour siege of Nariman House. The siege was coordinated by Lashkar-e-Taiba's Sajid Mir, who directly instructed the terrorist inside the Nariman House over the phone from Pakistan. Headley told the court that initially when the commandoes arrived by chopper, Mir directed his men to protect themselves with a mattress and that's how they escaped. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, his pregnant wife Rivka and seven guests were tortured and killed in this attack on the Jewish community centre. When questioned about his reaction to this attack, David Headley replied in court that he was "pleased." Hedley also testified in court that Rana told him that nine of the 10 Mumbai attackers who died should be given Pakistan's highest military bravery award - the Nishan-e-Haidar. He also told the court that that he and his alleged partner in crime, Tahawwur Rana, discussed 26/11 and heard those phone taps. Headley said Rana told him that "politically there are many views about this. But tactically what happened was brilliant. Sajid Mir, the commander, should be honoured with the title of Khalid bin Walid." In court, the prosecution presented as evidence emails exchanged between Headley and Sajid Mir on August 9, 2009. Both used email addresses not registered in their real names. In one of these emails, Headley said: "Dr. Saab gave you that name...Khalid bin Walid...after we heard of your music video. You should become a professional musician." If this sounds like a strange conversation, that is because it is in code. By music here, Headley meant the audio tape of the instructions Sajid Mir was giving to the assailants inside the Headley says he attended over 50 training sessions with ISI Chicago: David Headley has told a court in Chicago that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) provided him training for carrying out surveillance work for the 26/11 carnage. He added that he attended over 50 training sessions with the ISI. "ISI did provide me (espionage) training," Headley told the court as he was grilled by the defence attorney Charles D Swift on the third day of the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, another co-accused in the 26/11 attacks. Headley said he was provided the training by Major Iqbal, who he says was his ISI handler, on the streets and in a two-storey safe house in Lahore near the airport. 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 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) earlier." Headley further added that Major Iqbal, who has been identified by him as Chaudhery Khan, then told him that the training he received from LeT was "not very good" and was "very elementary" and 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 it," Headley said about the Lahore house during the course of questioning by Swift. He also admitted to being an informer for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Headley, a Pakistani-American, is the key witness in the trial of Rana. He has already pleaded guilty to laying the groundwork for the Mumbai attacks and has agreed to testify against Rana to avoid the death penalty. Headley's disclosures further cement India's charges that elements of the ISI were involved in the 26/11 attacks. (With PTI Inputs) Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/headley-says-he-attended-over-50-training-sessions-with-isi-108306?cp

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