LeT in league of al Qaeda: Napolitano

New Delhi, May 27 (PTI) The US on Friday ranked Pakistan-
based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), responsible for Mumbai terror
attacks, in the same league of al-Qaeda.
"I think in my judgement, the LeT ranks right up there in
the al-Qaeda and related groups as terrorist organisations,
one that seeks to harm people and takes innocent lives," US
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said here.
"Our perspective, the US perspective, is LeT is very
very, I do not want to say important as that gives it too much
credibility, but an organisation that is of the same ranking
as the al Qaeda related groups," she said at a joint press
conference with Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram.
India believes the LeT and the Pakistani spy agency ISI
hatched the conspiracy for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which
claimed 166 lives, including six Americans.
David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American giving
evidence in a Chicago court in connection with the Mumbai
attacks, has admitted to his links with the LeT and ISI.
Napolitano said the US had worked with India on
investigations into the Mumbai attacks and would grant Indian
investigators further access to Headley.
"The United States has given India full access to the
witness and once the case is over more access will be given.
It is an example of how our two countries cooperate," she
said.