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FBI has evidence of Headley's role in 26/11 attacks: Rao | Commenting on the latest investigation report provided by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on US-based terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, India has described them as 'incriminating evidences' that prove Headley's involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told the media team
accompanying Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on his return from a three-day
visit to Moscow that: " Investigations have revealed a lot of incriminating evidence
about the involvement of David Headley in planning the 26/11 attacks and leads,
possible leads, about possible involvement of persons and conspirators on the
Pakistani side." The FBI team is currently in New Delhi and is said to have shared
material it collected with Indian investigators about Headley's involvement in
the 26/11 attacks. Rao said that India is in touch with the United States and
is seeking access to the accused for further interrogation. Briefing reporters
onboard the Prime Minister's special aircraft, Rao said: "We would like to have
access to the accused for interrogation. We have been in close touch with the
US. This is not just today or yesterday. Our contact with the FBI has been underway
for some weeks." Roa's statement came a day after additional charges against Headley
were tabled in federal court in Chicago for planning terrorist attacks against
a Danish newspaper and for conducting a massive recce of places targeted during
the November 2008, Mumbai terror attacks. Headley, who was arrested in October,
through his lawyers, has authorized the U.S. Justice Department here to disclose
that he is cooperating in the investigation of both the Danish and Mumbai terror
plots. Headley, 49, has been charged in a 12-count criminal information with six
counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India, to murder and maim persons
in India and Denmark, to provide material support to foreign terrorist plots,
and to provide material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, and six counts of aiding and
abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India. It may be noted that over 170 people
were killed, including six US citizens, in the ghastly terror attacks in Mumbai
on November 26, 2008. Commenting on the charges levelled against the two Pakistani-origin
men, David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security said on Monday
that the case highlights that terrorism is now a global threat and that there
is a need of constant vigil to ward off the challenges. "This case serves as a
reminder that the terrorist threat is global in nature and requires constant vigilance
at home and abroad. We continue to share leads developed in this investigation
with our foreign and domestic law enforcement partners as we work together on
this important matter," added Kris. According to the latest charges, Headley changed
his name from Daood Gilani in February 2006, in Philadelphia, in order to present
himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani. He later
visited Mumbai five times, in September 2006, February and September 2007, and
April and July 2008, and each time took pictures and made videos of various targets,
including those attacked on 26 November, 2008. After each trip that Headley took
to India between September 2006 and July 2008, he allegedly returned to Pakistan,
met with other co-conspirators and provided them with photographs, videos and
oral descriptions of various locations. At various times, Headley allegedly conducted
surveillance of other locations in Mumbai and elsewhere in India of strategically
important installations, including the National Defence College in New Delhi. |
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