26/11 trial unravelling terror conspiracy: Indian envoy
May 27th, 2011 - 12:02 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) India’s envoy to the US, Meera Shankar, Thursday said the ongoing trial in America on the 2008 Mumbai attack was unveiling the details of the conspiracy behind the terror strike that killed 166 people.
A Chicago court is at present conducting the trial of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, co-accused in the Mumbai attacks case.
Rana’s one-time friend, David Coleman Headley, the key conspirator, has appeared as a witness in the trial testifying that he was trained in espionage by the Pakistani spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Shankar, who is in India presently, said the trial was going on in a Chicago court and fresh revelations were coming out with each passing day.
“Headley is one of the key witnesses in the trial. It is going on. Revelation is coming out. This is shedding new light on the full details of the conspiracy for the Mumbai terror attacks,” she said.
She was talking to reporters after meeting Home Minister P. Chidambaram to brief him about the Chicago court proceedings.
Headley told the court that he had visited a nuclear plant ahead of the November 2008 attack in Mumbai and had sought an assignment in Kashmir after training in Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) camps in Pakistan.
The meeting between Chidambaram and Shankar comes a day head of the home minister’s dialogue with US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano Friday.
“I discussed with the home minister about the homeland security dialogue that he will have with (the) US secretary,” she said.
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