London, January 27: Rahul Bhatt, son of prominent film director Mahesh Bhatt, is “convinced” that Pakistani-American LeT operative, David Headley was working for the FBI when he was in Mumbai before the 26/11 terror attacks.
“I’m convinced Headley was working for the Americans, for the FBI. I’d nicknamed him agent Headley,” Rahul said in an interview to UK’s Channel 4.
“It was the Americans’ deepest wish to infiltrate al-Qaeda. And David did exactly that for them. I had a hunch then and I have a hunch now that he was an American agent of some sort,” Rahul said.
“You know, he even begged me to stop calling him ‘Agent Headley’ in public. It really pissed him off. Now I know why,” Rahul was quoted as saying by Channel 4 News.
“He was a great guy.
–Agencies