US to consider giving India further access to Headley

From Lalit K Jha
Washington, Jun 3 (PTI) The US would consider giving
India access to David Headley, who has confessed to his
involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, for additional
questioning by its investigating agencies, the State
Department has said.
"In the past we've given India full access to Headley,
and I think that when a case is in litigation it's impossible
to do that.
"But moving forward, I think we would look for... or
consider further access," State Department spokesman Mark
Toner said at his daily news conference.
Headley, a Pakistani-American LeT operative, has
completed his testimony before a Chicago court conducting the
trial of his childhood friend Tahawwur Rana, another key
accused in the Mumbai attacks.
Headley has pleaded guilty to 12 terrorism charges
related to Mumbai attacks and other plots in the wake of his
2009 arrest in the US.
However, Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian, has maintained
that he is not guilty in the charge of "support to terrorism".
During Rana's trial, Headley testified that he had
conducted a surveillance of the German Bakery in Pune and
identified Chabad houses in Delhi, Pushkar and Pune as
potential bombing targets.