Mumbai: Terrorist David Coleman Headley told a Mumbai Court today that he had hated India after his school in Pakistan was bombed in December 1971 by the Indian planes and that this act of India compelled him to join terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba to “take revenge”.

The 55-year-old was referring to the India-Pakistan war fought between December 3 and 16, 1971. Back then, Headley would have been 11. Headley, who is serving a 35-year prison term in the US for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people in 2008, said that he wanted to cause maximum damage to India due to this.

The son of a Pakistani father and American mother, Headley schooled in Pakistan till he was about 16 years old and then moved to the US. He joined Lashkar in 2002.
He was arrested in 2009 in the US, which guaranteed he will not face the death penalty in exchange for his disclosing information about the terror group.