Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley on Tuesday testified before a United States court that al-Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri had a plan to kill the CEO of Lockheed Martin in frustration over drone attacks along the Af-Pak border and had sent men for surveillance.
Testifying in the resumed hearing in the Mumbai attack trial, Headley said that following his arrest he had offered to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation by giving a sword implanted with a chip to Kashmiri so that he could be targeted by drone attacks.
“There was a plan to kill him [the CEO] because he was making drones,” Headley testified during the trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Mumbai terror attack co-accused.
Headley, a Pakistani-American, was being cross-examined by the defence lawyer of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who is standing trial after he was slapped with a dozen charges in connection with the Mumbai attacks in which 166 persons were killed.
Headley replied in the negative when asked if he had been working on a plot to kill the Lockheed Martin boss.
Headley, who has pleaded guilty in the case, testified that Kashmiri had arranged for men to carry out surveillance in the U.S. in connection with the plot to kill the Lockheed CEO.
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