PC wanted access to Headley,even if he didnt speak

Home Minister P Chidambaram had asked FBI Director Robert Mueller that New Delhi must be able to say it has had access to David Coleman Headley.

Home Minister P Chidambaram had asked FBI Director Robert Mueller that New Delhi must be able to say it has had access to David Coleman Headley,even if the Le-T operative did not speak,according to WikiLeaks.

Chidambaram insisted that the GoI has access to Headley: We must be able to say we had access,even if Headley did not speak, the then US ambassador Timothy Roemer said in a secret diplomatic cable released by the website.

Chidambaram complained that Pakistan had done damn near nothing to prosecute the 26/11 suspects,but added that India would present a list of terror suspects to Pakistani officials when the two sides met for talks in New Delhi on February 25,2010,Roemer said.

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Referring to the February 23,2010 meeting between the Home Minister and the FBI director,Roemer said that Chidambaram also requested access to Headleys wife Shazia who had sent a message to her husband soon after the Mumbai attacks in 2008.

He (Chidambaram) also requested access to Headleys spouse,Shaiza,who he said is in Chicago so (that) GoI investigators can question her on the meaning of her alleged message to Headley that she saw your graduation, Roemer said in the cable.

The FBI director promised to look into both requests. However,Mueller cautioned that Headley might clam up if he was asked to cooperate with New Delhi.

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