Indian intelligence team returns without quizzing Headley

Lalit K Jha
Washington, Nov 10 (PTI) A team of Indian intelligence
officials left the US disappointed after a week-long stay here
as they could not question American national David Coleman
Headley, arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting a major
terror attack in India at the behest of Pakistan-based LeT.
Sources familiar with the visit of the Intelligence
Bureau (IB) and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officials
termed "bureaucratic" and "procedural" hurdles as the main
reason for them not being successful in interrogation of
Headley, who is now lodged in a Chicago jail.
49-year-old Headley, according to the FBI charge
sheet, was being used by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) to target
among others the National Defence College in Indian national
capital New Delhi, the Doon school in Dehradun and Woodstock
school in Mussoorie.
The Indian team, names of its members have not been
revealed to the media so far, arrived in Washington on
November 1 and was scheduled to grill Headley the next day.
However, the Indian team is believed to have spent
most of their time in Washington and they could not make their
planned trip to Chicago – where Headley and his co-conspirator
Tahawwur Hussain Rana are lodged in a jail – to interrogate
the duo, both Chicago-residents.
The team left for India through New York on November
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