Agency chief reveals how US, UK helped probe 26/11

As the Mumbai Police prepare to file a 5,000-page charge-sheet against Mohammed Ajmal Amir aka Kasab and three others on Wednesday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has given details of how American and British agencies helped Indian investigators during and after the carnage in November to collect evidence and trace the masterminds.

FBI director Robert Mueller, while speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, on Monday, said Indian authorities gave the FBI and other international agencies unprecedented access to evidence and intelligence. FBI agents extracted "fingerprints even from the improvised explosive devices", he said.

According to the FBI website, Mueller said agents in Delhi and Islamabad collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the US state department, British spy agency MI-6, and New Scotland Yard.

Mueller said FBI agents "conducted more than 60 interviews, including (that of) the lone surviving attacker (Ajmal)".

Menaka Rao/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication