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Chicago Terror Trial Draws Attention To Pakistan's Relationship With Terrorists
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U.S. and Pakistani officials meet in Islamabad today, to try to mend a relationship that is at a breaking point following the discovery and death of Osama bin Laden in a military town inside Pakistan. A terrorism trial now unfolding in a Chicago courtroom might strain that relationship further.
David Coleman Headley, the son of a Philadelphia socialite raised in Pakistan, will take the stand as a star government witness. Headley is expected to claim that an officer in Pakistan's ISI intelligence service gave him $28,000 to plan the deadly 2008 attack on the city of Mumbai, India, which killed at least 163 people including 6 Americans. We speak with Sebastian Rotella, who's covering the trial for Propublica.
This segment aired on May 19, 2011.