The Double Game

ABC news reported that David Headley who allegedly served as the scout for an al-Qaeda affiliate in preparation to launch the Mumbai terror attacks was serving on the Asian subcontinent as a paid informant of the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). This revelation is disturbing enough but then there emerges another claim that Headley's wife had warned American authorities prior to the terror massacre that her husband had gone rogue and was now working with terrorists. This is one of at least several alarms raised by family members that individuals were about to commit or advance the commission of acts of jihad that US authorities let slip by including the chance to arrest the infamous Christmas underwear bomber before he boarded his flight and very nearly succeeded in bringing down a packed jet only failing because his bomb failed to fully ignite. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's own father had taken the extraordinary step of alerting the US State Department that he feared his son had been radicalized. Whether it is a clear pattern of personal action that should have signaled our military and law enforcers to be alert such as the correspondence of the Fort Hood murderer with Yemen before his deadly rampage or relatives taking the courageous step of coming forward, America becomes negligent when such warnings are not promptly investigated. There is another game afoot in Pakistan with the Pakistani intelligence service ISI or members therein playing both sides in the war on terror. Perhaps, David Headley will reveal if he had any ISI handlers during the terror mission in a bid for leniency.