NEWDELHI: .According to US sources, Headley’s confessed that the LeT has also conducted surveillance of Rajkot oil refinery which is a potential target. Once Pasha, Abu Dujana, ISI officer Major Haroon and I discussed a plan to assassinate President Musharraf. His operation against mujahideen at the Lal Mazjid decisively set the tone for jihadists in Pakistan.”
Headl;ey also confessed that he introduced Pasha to some old contacts from his drug-dealing days. They used to smuggle weapons to India. “I told Rahul Bhatt (Mahesh Bhatt’s son whom he had be-friended in Mumbai) about these contacts but not in the context of my operations, of course,” the terrorist said.
Kashmiri dropped out of favor with the military after refusing the military’s suggestion to join Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). In 2003 he was arrested after being accused of involvement in the assassination attempts against then-President Musharraf, and was later released. After the 2007 Pakistani Army assault on the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad, he rejoined the jihadi movement, set up camp in Ramzak in North Waziristan, and was joined by several Pakistani Army military officers. He resumed his position as the operations chief of HuJI and a senior commander in Brigade 313.
Ilyas wanted to attack defence establishments
The reason why intelligence agencies took Illyas Kashmiri's threat seriously during Commonwealth Games 2010 was David Coleman Headley's confession to US interrogators that Kashmiri had planned spectacular attacks on Delhi's key defence establishments.
All targets had been videographed by him during his reconnaissance mission prior to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Headley confessed to US interrogators that he became closer to Kashmiri after the 26/11. "In April 2009, I got strong hints from Pasha (Abdur Rehman Hashim) that he was planning an attack on the National Defence College and Sena Bhawan in Delhi and that the man from Rawalpindi was ready to do it." Now the threat from Ilyas Kashmiri will no longer haunt India.