He was a member of the Pakistani elite. He worked at his mother’s Philadelphia bar. He smuggled heroin. He was DEA informant. He was an operative for Lashkar-i-Taiba, an Islamic militant group. Today, he’s in the custody of U.S. authorities.
In this slideshow I made for FRONTLINE, explore how David Coleman Headley followed a path that led to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks — and struck a plea bargain that both saved his life and put his best friend behind bars.
