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India to send intelligence team to US
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-30 00:38

NEW DELHI: India is planning to send an intelligence team to interrogate a US citizen arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting Mumbai-style attacks across cities in India, highly placed government sources said Thursday.

"Indian intelligence officials are seeking exclusive access to David Coleman Headley who has been arrested Wednesday by the FBI for allegedly planning attacks against India and Denmark. A team is likely to visit the US to interrogate him," the sources said.

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According to the sources, the US authorities have informed the Indian government that Headley's plot was bigger than what the FBI has revealed so far.

"India is worried by information that Headley's handler was a Pakistani-based terrorist called Ilyas Kashmiri. So, it wants an exclusive access to him instead of jointly grilling him with the FBI," the sources said, adding that banned outfit Laskar-e-Toiba might also be involved in the plan.

Headley, an American citizen from Chicago, was allegedly working with top Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives, based in Pakistan, and was in touch with a prominent Indian actor who his associates and he referred to as "Rahul", the FBI has claimed in its website.