Headley, America's 'hip-pocket' source in Pakistan who backfired
'S Sebastian Rotella in the second of a four-part series The first part of the series reveals how America botched up chances to nab him.
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On September 12, 2001, Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley's United States Drug Enforcement Administration handler called him.
Agents were canvassing sources for information on the Al Qaeda attacks of the day before. Headley angrily said he was an American and would have told the agent if he knew anything, according to the senior DEA official.
Headley began collecting counterterror intelligence, according to his testimony. He worked sources in Pakistan by phone, getting numbers for drug traffickers and Islamic extremists, according to his testimony and United States officials. He visited a mosque in Queens at the direction of the DEA, according to his testimony and officials.
But there was a dark side. A former girlfriend of Headley's told a bartender named Terry O'Donnell that he wanted to go to Pakistan to fight alongside Islamic militants, according to law enforcement officials. She said he had praised the Sept 11 attacks, recalled O'Donnell, now a New York firefighter.
"And then she went on and said he was happy to see it happen," O'Donnell said in interview. "And he got off on watching the news over and over again."
O'Donnell contacted a Federal Bureau Investigation-led task force that was investigating 9/11 -- and an avalanche of tips. Residents of the traumatised city were reporting everything from people who spoke Arabic to neighbours who put out the garbage at odd hours. Investigators interviewed Headley's mother and the girlfriend, who described his ideological support for militants in Kashmir, according to officials.
It would be the only warning about Headley that resulted in an interrogation. On Oct 4, two defence department agents working for the task force questioned him in front of his DEA handlers at the drug agency's office, according to the senior DEA official.
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An agent in Philadelphia did basic record checks and closed the case, a law enforcement official said. The official did not know whether the agent was aware of the interview of Headley in New York the year before. Headley's links to the DEA probably
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Demosthenes, the great Athenian orator of the 4th century B.C., is renowned for practising his speeches with pebbles in his mouth to help to cure a childhood speech impediment which probably included a stammer. His life story is a great example of how to turn failure and frailness into success and strength.
He reminds me of Sylvester Stallone and his fictitious boxer hero, Rocky Balboa, in more ways than one. Sylvester also had a speech impediment but did not let that stop him from becoming a world renowned film star.
As a boy, Demosthenes had been teased by his fellow students for his appearance and speech defects and had been given the nickname of ‘Batalus’. Possibly, this referred, at one time in Athens, to a part of the body which should not be spoken about in polite society. His own guardians robbed him of much of his inheritance. Not a great start in life!
However, unlike a large ration of the human race, he did not give up his dreams as he confronted his weaknesses, his critics and his dishonest guardians. He did not give up when his first attempts at speaking in communal ended in failure. Plutarch, the historian, described how the crowd mocked him when he first spoke to them.
He was helped out of his discouragement after one such sense by an old man called Eunomus who told him that his way of speaking was like that of the great communal speaker, Pericles. Eunomus also gave him some kick butt advice. He should not be a coward and hide away and he should also get physically fit.
Mickey tells Rocky much the same thing in the film ‘Rocky’. Mickey, like Eunomus, could see championship qualities in his protege He had always told Rocky that, with hard work, he could become a champion.
Just as Rocky Balboa had mentoring withhold from Mickey, Demosthenes had withhold from a kindly actor called Satyrus. On one occasion, Demosthenes was refused entry to the assembly. Satyrus found him, alone and miserable, wandering round the port of Athens. He asked Demosthenes to narrate a speech from a play. Satyrus then showed him how the speech should be performed with feeling and standard gestures.