Author: Himani Kumar in Chicago
Publication: Rediff.com
Date: June 7, 2011
URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-isi-gives-arms-to-kashmiri-terrorists-rana-to-fbi/20110607.htm
Pointing at Inter Services Intelligence's
direct involvement in providing arms to militants in Kashmir, Tahawwur Rana,
one of the key accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, has told the Federal
Bureau of Investigation that Pakistan's spy agency gives weapons to terrorists
when they are about to enter the Indian territory.
Rana's questioning video played for the first
time during his trial in Chicago shows the 50-year old Pakistani-Canadian
giving details about his conversations with Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David
Headley, another accused in the case, who had identified targets in Mumbai
which were attacked in November, 2008.
In over 17-minute clips of seven videos, part
of Rana's interrogation on October 18, 2009, hosted on the official website
of the court as evidence submitted, he is shown telling FBI officials that
US-born Headley had promised him that he would help him return to Pakistan
and settle his case in that country's army which had declared him a deserter.
Rana had been declared a deserter by the Pakistani
army, where he was a doctor, after he declined to go to the glacier region
following his posting there.
