Filmed Oberoi Hotel to kill time

Oberoi Hotel,attacked during the 26/11 Mumbai strikes,was not originally on the list of targets for surveillance given to David Headley by his ISI handler but he made a video of it after filming Chhabad House as he had an hour to spare before a movie.

This was revealed by the LeT operative in his testimony before a Chicago court during co-accused Tahawwur Rana’s recently concluded trial. Headley said Chhabad House was added to the list at the direction of his ISI handler Major Iqbal,who told him this was where the Israeli spy agency operates from. He said the Oberoi Hotel was not on the list of targets given to him,but he took the video as after taking the Chhabad house video,he had an hour left before he could watch a movie in the same area.

“Did you take videotape of it,Mr Headley?” he was asked. “Yes,” he said.

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“Okay. Why? It was not on your list that you just mentioned a moment ago?” the US attorney asked.

“Because I was in the area,and I was going to watch a movie in a nearby theatre,and I had about an hour left. So I went there and I just made the video,” Headley said. On how close is the Oberoi Hotel to the landing point selected by them,Headley replied: “It is close.”

Headley said for each of the target sites,he used GPS to enter the coordinates.