Headley had not acted alone: Chidambaram told FBI

In a meeting early this year, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram had discussed with FBI Director Robert Mueller the case of David Headley, a Pakistani-American in U.S. custody involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, saying he suspected Headley had not acted alone, according to a secret U.S. embassy cable made public by Wikileaks.

The FBI chief had said that Headley was giving the U.S. “the best information for months’’ on Pakistan-based terrorist groups. Mr. Chidambaram requested direct access to Headley, even if such access produces no information, and also access to Headley’s spouse.

Mr. Chidambaram asked whether an Indian government official could monitor Headley’s interrogation and submit questions “in real time”. He said that he had “a feeling in my bones that Headley was not acting here alone,’’ but conceded that he had no evidence to support his supposition that Headley formed sleeper cells in India, one of which may have been involved in the February 13 bombing in Pune, according to the February 26 cable of the U.S. embassy in New Delhi.

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