Port of Spain, November 29: A high-level FBI team will be coming to Delhi within a week with new information to unravel the terror plot hatched by David Coleman Headley and Tahawuur Rana and their links to the Mumbai carnage, National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan said here.
The decision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to come to India followed intensive discussions between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama in Washington Tuesday.
"We are seized of the matter. We are ready to do everything to unravel the conspiracy," Narayanan quoted Obama as telling Manmohan Singh during their talks in which issues relating to Pakistan and the Mumbai carnage figured prominently.
In the course of the discussions, the prime minister had expressed concerns about new hubs of terror coming up, specially in the neighbourhood, Narayanan said.
Referring to the US' promise of providing vital clues about a prominent Pakistani linked with the Mumbai carnage, Narayanan said he and Home Minister P. Chidambaram will speak to the FBI director on the issue.
An estimated 166 people were killed and 244 injured when 10 Pakistani terrorists sneaked into Mumbai and unleashed mayhem in the city Nov 26-28 last year.
The FBI's proactive stance on the Headley-Rana probe is an extension of the new counter-terrorism framework pact signed during Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington.
Now the security relationship between the two countries will be without reservations, official sources said here. If any side gets sensitive information having a bearing on the other, it will quickly pass on the information.
On the eve of Manmohan Singh's visit to the US a week ago, the US had disclosed to India that their investigation had revealed the link of the terror plot hatched by Headly and Rana to elements in Pakistan's spy agency ISI. In a week's time, the US is likely to give India vital clues about a Pakistani connected to the Mumbai carnage, official sources
The CIA chief Leon Panetta disclosed the links of Headley-Rana to elements in the ISI when he met Narayanan in New Delhi Saturday.
--Agencies
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