The United States on Tuesday said that it was working closely with India on the Headley-Rana case to detect and prevent future terror attacks. Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from Chicago in October for plotting terror attacks in India and Denmark.
The two countries are working as partners "better than ever before to facilitate information sharing, build capacity to prevent and respond to terror threats and assist in the prosecution of those who commit terror," United States Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer said.
Referring to the visit of the FBI team in New Delhi and the briefing of Indian law enforcement officials, he said it was clear and concrete evidence that the US and India were fulfilling President Barak Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "vision of unparalleled and unprecedented cooperation in the counter-terrorism arena."
He said the visit of the teams from the FBI and the Justice Department is a direct follow-on to the Counter Terrorism Cooperation Initiative launched during Dr Singh's state visit to the US.
"Both our countries are working closely together to share information on the Headley-Rana case and working to detect and prevent future threats," the ambassador said.
The joint team of Department of Justice and FBI briefed the Indian law enforcement agencies on Monday and today about the leads emerging from the investigation of US national David Headley and his Pakistani-Canadian associate Tahawwur Rana.
The team is expected to brief officials in Pakistan immediately after their stay in India.
