India and the U.S. have been “burning the midnight oil” and working hard on the David Headley case, U.S. Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer said on Wednesday.
He expressed the hope that Indian investigators would soon get to interrogate the Pakistani-American, who has confessed to plotting the Mumbai attacks.
However, Mr. Roemer, who was here to attend the first Cabinet-level Indo-U.S. Strategic Dialogue, was tight-lipped — like other federal officials — on the questioning of the 49-year-old LeT operative by a team of Indian investigators, which is in the United States.
“President [Barack] Obama is extremely interested in resolving this [issue], and our government is interested in resolving this,” he told reporters at a reception hosted by the U.S.-India Business Council.
“Symbolic of cooperation”
“This is symbolic, I think, in many ways of how close we are working together, trying to make sure that both countries and people are better protected, sharing intelligence in the middle of the night and hopefully saving lives doing that,” he said.
Mr. Roemer said he was hopeful that the “interview with Mr Headley will take place soon” and it is “symbolic of this extraordinary cooperation between these two great countries on counter-terrorism issues.”
