<p>Headley, who has confessed his role in plotting the 2008 Mumbai attack with Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders and was arrested last year in the US, told a team of Indian interrogators in a US prison that he was in the Indian capital in March 2009, said sources who did not want to be identified.<br /><br />During his Delhi trip -- four months after 10 terrorists sneaked into Mumbai from the sea and killed 166 people over three days -- Headley videographed 7 Race Course Road, the prime minister's official residence, Raksha Bhavan and the National Defence College (NDC) in the heart of the capital, the sources disclosed. <br /><br />A four-member team of Indian investigators interrogated Headley in June this year after he entered into a plea bargain with the US government offering to be available to foreign investigators for any questioning related to terror plots he was scheming with the LeT and Al Qaeda. <br /><br />The 49-year-old Pakistani-born revealed that he found "minimal security" at the NDC that appeared a "vulnerable target". <br /><br />The security cover at the prime minister's residence appeared too tough to break through and his Pakistani handlers were not interested in striking at the Raksha Bhavan, an office-cum-residential complex for defence personnel, Headley is believed to have told the investigators.<br /><br />He later spoke to his co-conspirator, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, another Pakistani terrorist who is also in a US prison.<br /><br />He said his Pakistani handlers were more interested in attacking the NDC and had even started working on the idea with a help from an unknown person in Nepal, the sources said.</p>
<p>Headley, who has confessed his role in plotting the 2008 Mumbai attack with Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders and was arrested last year in the US, told a team of Indian interrogators in a US prison that he was in the Indian capital in March 2009, said sources who did not want to be identified.<br /><br />During his Delhi trip -- four months after 10 terrorists sneaked into Mumbai from the sea and killed 166 people over three days -- Headley videographed 7 Race Course Road, the prime minister's official residence, Raksha Bhavan and the National Defence College (NDC) in the heart of the capital, the sources disclosed. <br /><br />A four-member team of Indian investigators interrogated Headley in June this year after he entered into a plea bargain with the US government offering to be available to foreign investigators for any questioning related to terror plots he was scheming with the LeT and Al Qaeda. <br /><br />The 49-year-old Pakistani-born revealed that he found "minimal security" at the NDC that appeared a "vulnerable target". <br /><br />The security cover at the prime minister's residence appeared too tough to break through and his Pakistani handlers were not interested in striking at the Raksha Bhavan, an office-cum-residential complex for defence personnel, Headley is believed to have told the investigators.<br /><br />He later spoke to his co-conspirator, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, another Pakistani terrorist who is also in a US prison.<br /><br />He said his Pakistani handlers were more interested in attacking the NDC and had even started working on the idea with a help from an unknown person in Nepal, the sources said.</p>