US working at "highest levels" to provide direct access to Headley

New Delhi, Apr 19 (PTI) The US is constantly working
at the "highest levels" to provide direct access to India as
"quickly" as it can to David Headley, who has confessed to
plotting the Mumbai attacks.
Maintaining that the process of direct access to the
Pakistani-American was full of judicial and legal
"complications", US Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer
Monday said "....this is a sensitive issue, and because it is
so important to you, we are going to resolve it. Provide this
access as quickly as we can."
"We want to ensure that justice is delivered to the
attackers. Nobody understands the importance of Headley as I
do and the US. This is the highest priority (providing direct
access)," the envoy said, adding "We are literally working
night and day at the highest levels of our government to
resolve this issue of direct access to Headley."
The envoy went on to add that the US' effort to
provide direct access to Headley was yet another example of
how strong the relationship today was between India and his
country. "Five-six years back, these kind of offers were off
the table."
Roemer refused to comment on possibility of
extradition of Headley but said India has not formally asked
for this.
He also maintained that Headley’s significance and
symbolism in India to the bloodthirsty terrorism of Mumbai is
similar in some ways to Osama Bin Laden’s connection to 9/11
for America.
During his last week's visit to the US, Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh had received "very high-level"
assurances from the US Government that it will get access to
Headley with the issue figuring in the meeting between him and
US President Barack Obama.
Roemer said, currently the US was providing indirect
access to Headley by sharing with India the information
gathered from him and putting forth the questions by Indian
officials for the purposes of averting any possible terror
attack in future on both India and his country. PTI PYK
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