New Delhi, Oct 16: Insisting that it had shared with India terror-related inputs it deemed were “potentially credible” to its national security, the US on Saturday said it was looking into media reports that FBI had prior knowledge of David Headley’s links with terror groups in Pakistan.
“I can say that it is our policy and practice to share terrorism-related information promptly with our foreign partners, when we deem that information potentially credible and relevant to their national security,” the US Ambassador to India, Mr Timothy Roemer, said. “We do exactly that with partners around the world every day, including India.”
His statement comes in the wake of reports in The Washington Post and by a non-profit newsroom that US security officials were aware of Headley’s links with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.
“We are looking into published reports about possible information related to Headley that goes back before the Mumbai attacks and how such information may have been handled,” Mr Roemer said, adding that he would be in position to comment in specific claims made in the media only after “we have determined exactly what transpired”.