Who is David Headley and American Agent:
Drug conviction and DEA dealGilani opened two video rental stores in New York City in the late 1980s.[23]
In 1987 he was first arrested on drug charges, and cooperated with the DEA in exchange for a lighter sentence.[24]
In 1997 he was one of two men arrested for smuggling heroin into the country from Pakistan.[20] In exchange for information about his Pakistani drug contacts, he received a considerably lighter sentence than his co-defendant: fifteen months in jail and five years of supervised release. In November 1998, Headley was delivered to the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix. However, his supervised release period was never completed. Instead, in November 2001, an assistant U.S. attorney applied to have Headley discharged.[25] Headley traveled to Pakistan multiple times to conduct undercover surveillance operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration.[10][20] In 2002 and three times in 2003, he attended Lashkar-e-Taiba training camps in Pakistan.[22]
[edit] Domestic arrest and terror trainingGilani's 1999 trip to Pakistan was for an arranged marriage, but in 2002, he married his girlfriend of 8 years in New York.[26] In August 2005 Gilani was arrested in New York after a fight with his then wife.[26] His wife told federal agents that Gilani was an active member of Lashkar-e-Taiba, had trained extensively in its Pakistani camps, and had shopped for night-vision goggles and other equipment.
Gilani trained five times with Lashkar-e-Taiba at a camp in Pakistan. A 2007 court testimony by a fellow militant Willie Brigitte described the Lashkar training camp, which was guarded and supplied by Pakistan army soldiers.[3]
In October 2010, when it was revealed that Headley's wives had complained in 2005 and in 2007 to U.S. authorities about his terrorist activities to no effect, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. undertook a review of how Headley had been handled.[11]
[edit] Name change and move to ChicagoIn 2006, he changed his name to David Headley so as to make border crossings between the United States and other countries easier. He moved his family to Chicago, where he claimed to work for Tahawwur Hussain Rana's immigration agency. Rana had been in the Cadet College Hasan Abdal with him.[20]
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