Imagine Osama bin Laden as alive and put him into the shoes of David Headley. The former might have unveiled a more startling account than what Headley has disclosed in the Chicago court – as to how he worked in tandem with ISI and Taliban to fight against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan – as how he was tacitly supported by the U.S. to build Al-Qaeda – as to why he turned against his own mentor (the U.S), and finally as to how he was hunted down, also resulting in the death of scores of innocent civilians and occupation of two countries. The fact that David Headley was working with DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) in the U.S., and he was frequently travelling between India, Pakistan and the U.S., give credence to the suspicion that he was a CIA double agent. Probably, he escaped death warrant from the U.S., as he has only a few things to reveal, unlike Osama bin Laden, who had a trove of information to disclose the American complicity in terror.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin
Kadapa, A.P.