The former armyman identified as Sajid Mir has turned out to be Headley’s handler in Pakistan who was tasking the American to learn praying like Jews so that he could conduct a recce of Jewish Centre Nariman House in Mumbai and the premises of a newspaper in Denmark, official sources said here on Wednesday.
The sources said Mir has been arrested in Pakistan but this could not be independently verified. The 48-year-old American-born Headley, was arrested by the FBI in Chicago on October this year.
(Published 02 December 2009, 19:05 IST)
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