Washington, October 16
Three years prior to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the FBI was warned of the strikes and David Headley's links with the LeT by the wife of the Pakistani-American terrorist, says an investigative report.

“Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack,” according to the report on the 26/11 attacks published by ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom engaged in investigative journalism in the public interest. “The previously undisclosed allegations against David Coleman Headley, who became a key figure in the plot that killed 166 persons, came from his wife after a domestic dispute that resulted in his arrest in 2005,” the report said.

In three interviews with federal agents, Headley’s wife said he was an active militant in the LeT, had trained extensively in its Pakistani camps and had shopped for night vision goggles and other equipment, the report investigated by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica said citing officials and sources close to the case.

A version of the investigative report released yesterday by ProPublica, which is supported entirely by philanthropy and provides the articles it produces, free of charge, both through its website and to leading news organisations, was also published by the online edition of ‘The Washington Post’. — PTI