DEA Informant helped set-up the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks

[spooked911]

http://www.propublica.org/article/feds-confirm-mumbai-plotter-trained-with-terrorists-while-working-for-dea

Federal officials acknowledged Saturday that David Coleman Headley, the U.S. businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as a DEA informant while he was training with terrorists in Pakistan. (snip)

... the FBI had been warned about Headley’s terrorist ties three years before the Mumbai attacks. Headley wasn’t arrested until 11 months after the attack.

After Headley was arrested in a 2005 domestic dispute in New York City, his wife told federal investigators about his long involvement with the terrorist group Lashkar-i-Taiba and his extensive training in its Pakistani camps. She also told them he had bragged about being a paid U.S. informant while undergoing terrorist training.

Despite a federal inquiry into the tip, Headley spent the next four years doing terrorist reconnaissance around the world. Between 2006 and 2008, he did five spying missions in Mumbai scouting targets for the attack by Lashkar that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
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Nothing to see here, move along...

[spooked911]

1. so... no argument that the US govt knew about the Mumbai attacks and did nothing to stop them.

Yet bring up that idea for 9/11, and people go bonkers.

I guess the US does shitty things to foreigners all the time. But to it's own people? Outrageous.

[deconstruct911]

2. Perhaps the most shocking part of it all

is the cia/dea have been used to bring narcotics into America, and then lock people up for using those drugs. But they certainly wouldn't murder any of their "own" citizens. Of course not!

[William Seger]

3. Maybe...

... your latest delusions are just much less pathologically interesting than mini-nukes and video fakery.

[LARED]

4. Somehow I missed the part about the US having

forknowledge about the Mumbi attacks in this story. Cn you spell it out?

[mrarundale]

5. Drugs

low overhead, expendable employees, an eternally renewable resource unlike petroleum/mining, tax free...... what are all those countries really fighting the local gangstas for control of in Afghanistan? I mean, really, wtf does the DEA always pop up when it has been pretty well documented that the US has not made much of an effort to end opium production...
sorry for changing subject from Mumbai....btw I can't find that link, but there are a lot of others.

[defendandprotect]

6. And why is this in 9/11 ....????