Lashkar-e-Taiba made an attempt to kill Bal Thackeray: Headley

MUMBAI: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed believed the late Bal Thackeray "needed to be taught a lesson" and Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley told him he would take "six months to complete the task".Headley, the terrorist-turned-approver, also said in a deposition to a Mumbai court on Saturday that he visited the residence of the late Shiv Sena supremo as well as Sena Bhavan in Mumbai, for surveillance.Earlier this week, the 26/11 Mumbai terror convict said the LeT had planned to kill Thackeray in Mumbai, but the plan failed as the would-be assassin was arrested.This is Headley's second deposition that he's making from an undisclosed location in the US.On Saturday, Headley also said that top LeT operative Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, in 2006, introduced him to Muzzamil Bhatt and said that Bhatt was the person responsible for the Akshardham attack and Ishrat Jahan's recruitment.Headley denied telling the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that Lakhvi was being "sarcastic" when he introduced Bhatt as a 'top commander.'"NIA has recorded my statement in different words from what I told them," Headley told the Mumbai court.The former LeT man further said that he did tell the NIA that Mumbai resident Ishrat Jahan - killed allegedly in an encounter in Gujarat -was recruited by the LeT to be a suicide bomber. He also claims to have told the NIA about a women's wing of the LeT.Headley said that the NIA didn't record that part of his statement and that he does not know why that is.