is he really an isi person who is within lashkar-e-taiba, or is he a lashkar-e-taiba person who was trainedby the military in the background? it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter because, in a sense, lashkar-e-taiba was a proxy of the interservice intelligence directorate, and very much under their control. >> rotella: after three years of training with lashkar, daood gilani was ready to join the jihad. in 2005, he lobbied to fight in kashmir, but sajid mir had a different plan. that fall, it was revealed: mumbai. the details were sketchy, but filling them out would be gilani's job. >> lashkar-e-taiba is a terrorist organization, so it trained people to kill. they don't do logistics very well. and at that point, i'm not sure that headley would have been able to carry it out yet. he needed something else. he needed real training in espionage. >> rotella: gilani would later reveal the help came from the isi. word of sajid mir's new american recruit reached an officer in the intelligence agency, major iqbal. "iqbal" is probably an alias. the fbi and interpol have him listed as wanted, but they

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