December 7, 2009 10:16 PM

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FBI to share more information with India on terror suspects Headley, Rana

A joint team of US Department of Justice and the FBI on Monday briefed Indian investigators on American terror suspect David Headley's alleged role in last year's Mumbai terror strike.<br/><br/>The team held discussions with the officials of Home Ministry and National Investigating Agency, which is probing the role in India of Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Paksitani-Canadian. Both of them were arrested by FBI in October this year for plotting terror attacks in India and Denmark.<br/><br/>US Embassy spokespeson Elizabeth Fitzsimmons said in New Delhi that the joint team also briefed the Indian investigators on Headley's alleged role in plotting an attack on a newspaper in Denmark.<br/><br/>The team, after exchanging the views with their Indian counterparts, will be travelling to Pakistan to meet the authorities in Islamabad. <br/><br/>According to sources, the FBI gave some information about Headley and also assured Indian probe agencies that they would share more of it as the interrogation of the two progressed in the US as well as in Pakistan.<br/>

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