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Hated India since childhood, admits Headley

NEW DELHI: Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Headley said on Friday that a few weeks after his father died in Pakistan in December 2008, the then Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani visited his house.The former member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit was deposing before a Mumbai court on Friday from an undisclosed location in the US. This is his second set of depositions.Headley, who was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, added that his father had retired as director general of Radio Pakistan andobjected to his association with LeT, the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit.He also said that he's hated India since he was a child because Indian planes bombed his school in December 1971. He was referring to the war between India and Pakistan in 1971.Earlier this week, Headley also said that LeT had planned to kill Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray in Mumbai, but the plan failed.On Friday, Headley said he was trying to organise a fundraiser for the Shiv Sena in the US, although there wasn't a plan to attack Thackeray on American soil.In addition, Headley said he didn't mention that Ishrat Jahan was a Lashkar member during associate Tahawwur Rena's US trial, because he was "not giving any speech that he should have mentioned Ishrat's name" then.Headley had said last month in an earlier deposition that Ishrat was a suicide bomber for the LeT. In June 2004, Mumbai resident Ishrat and three other men were shot dead on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, allegedly in an encounter with the police."They didn't ask me about Ishrat so I didn't tell them about it," he said, adding that "he was just "replying to their questions in that trial."As for there being a women's cell of the LeT, like he said last month, Headley said today that during Rana's trial he didn't know about such a cell.