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Friday, March 19, 2010 (15:26:19) |
| Tags : 26/11, P. Chidambaram |
Headley confession not a setback: Chidambaram |
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New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram today said Pakistani American terror suspect David Coleman Headley's confession that he planned the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and his deal with US prosecutors was "not a setback to India". New Delhi, he said, would "wait and see" and continue its case to extradite or get access to him. "It is not a setback. We have not yet charged Headley. We will charge Headley at an appropriate time," Chidambaram told reporters here. "We will continue with our extradition plea," he said after a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Headley, a Pakistani born US national, has entered a deal with prosecutors in a Chicago court that he won't be sentenced to death or extradited to India, Pakistan or Denmark after pleading guilty to terror charges.
"There is a good chance that he will testify in judicial proceedings where Indian (investigators) will have a right to question him," the home minister said.
Headley on Thursday pleaded guilty to a dozen federal terrorism charges in a Chicago court and admitted his role in planning the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
Headley, 49, also admitted that he attended training camps in Pakistan operated by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) on five separate occasions between 2002 and 2005. (IANS) |
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