Terrorist David Headley Gets Day Off After Video Glitch in US

Mumbai: Terrorist David Coleman Headley's testimony in the 26/11 case via video link from the US has been cancelled for today because of a glitch. The video link could not be established for over three hours.

Headley is deposing from an undisclosed location from the US on the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 166 people were killed.

"There were technical problems from America. There was no visual link, only an audio link. We tried again and again but every effort failed. Our lines were working but American experts failed. The Department of Justice informed us that they regretted that the hearing can take place only tomorrow, said Ujjwal Nikam, special public prosecutor.

Mr Nikam said the US had offered more time in the next hearing.

Headley will testify again tomorrow from 7 am to 1.30 pm.  Over the last two days, he has revealed details about Pakistan's spy agency ISI collaborating with terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was behind the terror attack.

Headley has told the court that he was for working for the ISI and had met many people from the Pakistani Army. On Monday, Day 1 of his deposition, he had recounted how he joined the Lashkar e Taiba in 2002.

Headley has said that the ISI and the Lashkar work in close coordination with each other and the  ISI provides financial, military and moral support to the Lashkar.

Headley has also said that the ISI provides such support also to other terror groups like the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Jaish-e-Mohammad led by Masood Azhar, which is suspected to have attacked the Pathankot airbase in Punjab last month.

Headley said about a year before the 26/11 attack, Lashkar operatives planned an attack on a meeting of Defence Scientists that was to be held at Mumbai's famous Taj Mahal hotel.

Headley also said his Lashkar handler Sajid Mir had asked him to survey the famous Sidhivinayak temple in Mumbai as a possible terror target.