The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has completed its probe in the terror attacks in the Indian financial capital Mumbai that left over 180 persons dead including six American nationals, and a team is likely to go there to prepare a charge sheet against the guilty, media reports said.
Less than a month after the unprecedented terror strikes, the FBI is understood to have found evidence about the role of a Pakistani security establishment other than the ISI being involved in the November 26 carnage.
While the name of the Pakistan establishment involved in the attack was not clear immediately, the possibility of active and direct involvement of its army has not been ruled out.
The FBI officials, before completing the probe, had questioned Kasab, the lone Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) militant captured in November 26 terror strikes, for over nine hours recently to ascertain about his role and his handlers in Pakistan.
During the interrogation, the FBI sleuths asked the arrested Lashkar terrorist minor details about his native places, including the lanes and by-lanes of the area. Kasab hails from the Ukkad area of Faridkot district in Pakistan.
The FBI had also taken the DNA samples of the nine Lashkar terrorists killed in Mumbai to ascertain whether it matched with anyone in their data bank or has any relations with persons killed during operations of Allied Forces in Afghanistan.
The FBI had registered a case in the Mumbai terror strikes as according to the U.S. laws, the agency had to file a charge sheet in case of a death or torture of any American national outside the country.
As the FBI winds up the probe, which commenced on December 1, top U.S. Intelligence official John Michael McConnell, who heads the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), dashed to New Delhi and held meetings with the FBI team probing the case.
McConnell has passed on the findings of FBI team to the officials in the government and the U.S. probe agency would now be giving final touches to charge sheet in which it would be naming the accused persons.
He also held series of meetings with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and senior officials including National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and discussed issues relating to evidence gathered so far in the probe in the 26/11 terror strikes, the sources said.
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