Wife: Officials knew of husband's training

NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The wife of an American implicated in a plot that killed 166 people in Mumbai, India, says federal agents knew he trained in Pakistan before the attack.

The previously undisclosed allegations against David Coleman Headley came from his wife following a domestic dispute that resulted in his arrest in 2005, ProPublica reported.

Gunmen attacked luxury hotels, a hospital, a move theater and other buildings in Mumbai in November 2008 in a rampage through India's financial capital.

Headley wasn't arrested until 11 months after the Mumbai attack, when British intelligence alerted U.S. authorities that he was in contact with al-Qaida in Europe.

In three interviews with federal agents, Headley's wife allegedly said he was an active militant in the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba, and that he had trained extensively in Pakistani camps.

ProPublica didn't name the wife to protect her safety, but she also allegedly told agents her husband had bragged of working as a paid U.S. informant while he was training with terrorists in Pakistan.

In the four years between the wife's warning and Headley's capture, Lashkar allegedly sent him on reconnaissance missions around the world, and on five trips to Mumbai where he allegedly scouted targets for the attack.

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