Saturday, November 14, 2009

FBI must allow Indian intelligence officials' accessibility to Headley

David Coleman Headley is a Laskar operative and has international network with India as his prime target of attack. He was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation of the US, and FBI has disclosed after interrogating him in detail that after 26/11 Mumbai attacks, he had plotted to attack two prestigeous Indian Military Acdemies and two premier Boarding Schools in India. After FBI disclosure, Indian agencies too made indepth analysis of Headley’s movement and found that he had done recce of Delhi, other Indian cities and visited Mumbai too and stayed in the Taj Hotel in March 2008. Headley is Pakistan-born US-based LeT operative and he also did recce to Karachi several times. He was always in close touch with Lashkar supremo to take direction what he has to do. His close associates are Tanwaar Hussain Rana and Illiaysi Kashmiri who are notorious for terrorism. Their main points of attack was India, while Headley first wanted to attack a newspaper Office in Denmark. But as he was remote-controlled by Pak-based LeT, they wanted him to create mayhem India. Pakistan is in D-mode as it is always found to be. It denies any information about Headley, Rana and Kashmiri. It is not new on its part because when it initially denied that Mumbai attackers were Pakistani nationals, it can go to any extent. As India has come closer to US in recent days and issue of terrorism is of prime concerns for both of them, it must insist on it to extradite Headley so that Indian intelligence sleuths could interrogate him thoroughly. It appears baffling that why FBI is not allowing the accessibility of Indian intelligen agencies to Headley when he is in their custody. The action of FBI clearly indicates that the US still wants to save Pakistan from embarrassment because if Indian Intelligence agencies got access to Headley, they would interrogate him thoroughly and there is all likelyhood that then Pakistan will be exposed before the international community. This type of attitude adopted by the US when the issue of terrorism involves Pakistan would serve no purpose which is why we have not been able yet to crush this scourge of tesrrorism. Indian connection of Headley must also be probed thorougfhly and wherever any doubt arises on any person, howsoever high he or she may be must be awarded deterrent punishment. The news has also appeared in different newspapers that a Gynm Instructor in Mumbai named Rahul has been friend of Headley and he reportedly used him as his cover in Mumbai.Rahul is reportedly the son of a famous film Director. What role he has played with Headley is a matter of probe by intelligence agencies. Headley's movement in India and his stay in Delhi and Mumbai must be thoroughly probed from all angles. The innocent must not be harassed but at the same time the guilty must not be spared at any cost.

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