Revelations by Headley shared with Pak: Clinton

Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Jul 19 (PTI) The interrogation of David
Headley, a Pakistani-American terror suspect linked to the
Mumbai attacks, has thrown up a "revealing set of facts" that
have been shared with Pakistani authorities, US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton said here Monday.
"I don't know the specifics (of the revelations made
by Headley) but I know that it has been quite a revealing set
of facts that we've shared with the Pakistani authorities,"
Clinton said during an interaction with a group of television
anchors.
Responding to a question on whether the US will book
Headley for the murder of six Americans during the 2008 Mumbai
attacks, Clinton said: "I don’t know everything he's been
booked for...but he has been connected with many different
events, including Mumbai, but others as well."
Headley's interrogation by American investigators,
which "brought much of this to light", is continuing, she
said.
Headley was "fully cooperative and he was willing to
explain in great detail a lot of what he had done over the
years," she added.
Asked if Pakistani authorities would be granted access
to Headley, who is currently in the custody of the FBI,
Clinton said a decision in this regard would have to be made
by the US Justice Department.
Headley, the son of a Pakistani broadcaster and an
American woman, has admitted that he conducted surveillance of
the sites that were targeted by 10 Pakistani terrorists during
the Mumbai attacks.
He had also told Indian and American investigators
that the attacks were carried out by the Pakistan-based
Lashker-e-Taiba.
Clinton also said Headley and Faisal Shahzad, the
Pakistan-American responsible for the botched car bomb attack
in New York, were radicalised in the US but were "facilitated,
directed and operationalised" from Pakistan. PTI RHL
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