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| US gives India access to Mumbai attacks 'planner' |
| 2010-06-12 |
| Investigators from India have conducted lengthy interviews with David Coleman Headley, an American national linked to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in which 166 people were killed, the US Justice Department announced on Thursday. Headley answered the questions of Indian investigators over the course of seven days. In March, he pleaded guilty to a dozen federal terrorism charges related to the Mumbai attacks as well as to a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published blasphemous caricatures in 2005. "There were no restrictions on questions posed by investigators," the Justice Department said in a statement. "To protect the confidentiality of the investigations being conducted by both India and the US, both countries have agreed not to disclose contents of the interviews which started on June 3 and lasted until Wednesday," according to US officials. Headley had agreed to help investigators and give testimony against others in exchange for a promise that he would not be extradited. Indian officials said that they had pressed for access to Headley, the US-born son of a former Pakistani diplomat and an American woman. He was arrested in October before leaving for Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Now why wouldn't the Daily Time Pak want to use the perp's real name? |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-12 02:44 |