FBI chief coming with Headley-Rana dossier

Nov. 29: India and the United States will take intelligence-sharing to a new level when an FBI team arrives in New Delhi this week with a comprehensive dossier on David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana, the two men detained in the US and suspected of involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

Amid speculation that despite repeated requests, the US has denied Indian sleuths access to the duo, national security adviser M.K. Narayanan said India will take a call on whether to push for access after they had seen the “substantive” information that is likely to be provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“We would like to wait and see what’s in the dossier that the team headed by the director of the FBI brings when it arrives in Delhi at the end of the week before we decide our next course of action. Any investigative agency would like to have access to Headley and Rana. We certainly would,” he said.

Sources close to the talks in Washington between US president Obama and PM Manmohan Singh said Mr Obama had asked US national security adviser James Jones “not to hold back” and to share with India all the information they had gleaned from the two men, believed to have been key players in plotting the Mumbai massacre.

“The directive came from the president himself. It’s very satisfying,” the source said reflecting the alarm about the growing number of terror hubs in the neighbourhood.