Walter Mitty type on CIA-sponsored spiral into terrorism
Headley (or Daud Gilani) really fascinates me at the moment. He epitomizes a world of murky double-agents, multiple identities, betrayal and most of all the secretive power of the big intelligence agencies. From a small time drug smuggler to a big time terrorist. The story of David Headley is the story of how the world's secret service agencies operate in a world of their own and provide terrorism with a unique momentum. We still do not know where the allegiances of David Headley lay. Were they with the Islamic jihadi groups, with the CIA, with the DEA, with money, with his family. The judge was quite right to be skceptical about whether he had changed, how could anything he declared be fully trusted. This was a man who had lost to his inner chameleon. There is so much written about Headley, particularly in the Indian press. I am reading a book called Headley and I by S. Hussain Zaidi with Rahul Bhatt. Bhatt was a weak character, son of a movie star, who Headly befriended on one of his recce missions ahead of the Bombay atrocities of 26/11.
The filmed confession of the lone surviving gunman has generated its fair share of conspiracy theories, mainly that he appears to be an Indian and even a Hindu. Now he has been executed we will never know and speculation will remain rife. The Kasab Confessions:
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