Federal Bureau of Investigation chief Robert Mueller will arrive in New Delhi on Tuesday and hold a series of meetings with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and other top functionaries of the government.Mueller's visit comes after India and United States shared details of intelligence and investigations in the terror strikes on Mumbai in November last year -- a joint effort which forced Pakistan to admit that a part of the conspiracy was hatched on its soil.
The Nigerian-origin bomber, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, has warned US investigators that "there are more just like me who will strike soon." Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, had earlier claimed connection with Yemen-based Al Qaeda, which had supplied him with "new type explosives" to bring the trans-Atlantic flight down, and kill 289 people on board.
American prosecutors may seek a lesser sentence for Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley -- under a plea agreement the latter has clinched with the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- at the sentencing of the Pakistani-American terrorist in a United States court on Thursday.
Fahim Ansari, one of the two Indians involved in the deadly Mumbai attacks, has moved the Mumbai High Court seeking to restrain the Federal Bureau of Investigation from interrogating him.
A senior source in Mumbai police aggressively argued that revelations in the David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana case by newly-formed National Investigation Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation of US is not going to affect the 26/11 case which is being heard in the special court set up at the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office has assured film-maker Mahesh Bhatt that the Home Ministry will inquire into the "leak" of information relating to his son having known David Headley, a US terror suspect arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for plotting strikes in India. An agitated Bhatt had written a letter to Singh on November 15 in which the film-maker said he felt a sense of "great betrayal" over the manner in which his son was handled by investigators.
Federal officials have said this is unlikely to happen.
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Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has ruled out the possibility of Haqqani network's presence in Pakistan. Malik, who held a meeting with Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S Muller in Islamabad, however, said that if Pakistan receives credible information about the group's presence, the government would launch military action.
A mysterious 'Rahul' appears to have been the prime target of Chicago resident David Coleman Headley, nabbed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for planning to carry out a major terror attack in India this month at the behest of Pakistan-based Laskar-e-Tayiba.
'Countries like Israel said openly that they will hunt people down. We have no such policy.' 'We have always been following the legal process of getting them (people wanted by India) through extradition.'
The Army is investigating the manner in which Major Shantanu Dey, who is being probed in a suspected espionage case, got access to over 200 classified documents that were found in his computer hard disc. "The inquiry in the case is still on and we are trying to find out how Major Dey get access to classified files and who gave it to him," Army sources said in New Delhi on Monday.
Mumbai attacks accused David Headley had repeatedly told his Federal Bureau of Investigation interrogators that his friend and co-accused Tahawwur Rana was unaware of his terror activities and had not provided any support to him knowingly, details that were omitted from an affidavit filed before a court, recently unsealed documents reveal.
The detention hearing of Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for illegally lobbying for Pakistan in the United Sstates, was postponed for next Tuesday, as his attorney had scheduling conflicts.
Separatist Kashmiri leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, who has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of working for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, was the point man of contact for the Hurriyat leaders whenever they visited the United States.
Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar on Thursday expressed surprise that senior journalists like Kuldeep Nayyar, Dileep Padgaonkar and former Chief Justice of Delhi high court Justice Rajinder Sachhar did not know the credentials of Kashmiri-American lobbyist Ghulam Nabi Fai.
United States Republican Party member Dan Burton, who is reportedly the largest individual recipient of money from two alleged Pakistani spies, has said that he is "deeply shocked" by the arrest of Kashmiri American Council executive director Ghulam-Nabi Fai.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made public the phone numbers and emails addresses of the alleged Inter-Services INtelligence handlers of Ghulam Nabi Fai arrested in Washington for collaborating with the Pakistani spy agency by funnelling money to influence United States policy on Kashmir.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a nationwide manhunt and alerted Interpol to locate one of its most-wanted fugitives, Indian-origin doctor Gautam Gupta whose ads promising weight loss are well-known, for allegedly defrauding United States insurance companies of $25 million over the last decade.
Pointing at Inter Services Intelligence's direct involvement in providing arms to militants in Kashmir, Tahawwur Rana, one of the key accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Pakistan's spy agency gives weapons to terrorists when they are about to enter the Indian territory.
In a highly emotional yet powerful testimony before a United States Senate Committee on Capitol Hill, Harpreet Singh Saini, the 18-year-old son of one of the victims of the Oak Creek gurudwara shooting, urged the US government to add a separate category for Sikh Americans on the form used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather data on hate crimes.
Arora was arrested under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after a long session of questioning.
He was first called by the federal agency to appear on November 2, but he did not depose alleging that the notice was "vague, motivated and unsustainable in law".
A spokesman for Roman Abramovich denied a news report on Monday that the billionaire Russian owner of London's Chelsea soccer club had been arrested in the United States.
Till 1972, under the long-time Director of the America's Federal Bureau of Investigation J Edgar Hoover, only men could be FBI agents. After his death in May 1972, partly under the pressure of the equal rights laws, the FBI started recruiting women as agents.
While private groups had been quietly monitoring the Wisconsin Gurdwara shooter and his racist leanings for years, Wade Michael Page was not on the radar of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe into the massacre of six people inside a Gurudwara in Wisconsin, described as the deadliest attack against the Sikh community in the US, as authorities termed the shooting spree of Wade Michael Page, the lone white gunman, as "domestic terrorism".
In a grisly online plot, a New York police officer planned to torture and roast alive his fiancee with a butcher in India with whom he chatted on the internet, an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent has testified in a local court.
Russia conceded on Tuesday that the 11people arrested for suspected espionage were its nationals, but said they had not committed actions against US interests, even as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that the scandal will not affect bilateral relations.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation carried out search operations on three jewellery stores owned by Indian American and located in popular Indian market in Jersey City for their alleged involvement in money laundering.
The Mumbai police is willing to take cognizance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's findings at last in the ongoing court case related to the 26/11 case.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation team has arrived in New Delhi and is holding discussions with its Indian counterparts. The main focus of the discussion will revolve round the role played by both David Headley and Tawwahur Rana in the Mumbai 26/11 attack.
An FBI spokesperson told PTI on Saturday, "The FBI continues to assist the Government of India with their investigation into last year's attacks in Mumbai. The FBI has been working with the Indian authorities as well as our partners to cover all leads, wherever they may take us." His remarks came in response to a question on the claim early this week by scrap dealer, Anita Uddaiya that she was taken to the US for further interrogation by the FBI.
A team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, headed by its chief Robert Mueller, will visit New Delhi on November 18 to investigate the Indian links of David Headley -- the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative arrested in Chicago in early October.During its two-day visit, the team will probe the US citizen's links with the LeT and also try to find out information about the terror network he allegedly set up in India, said sources.
An Indian American businessman was indicted by a federal jury with charges of impersonating a United States Defence Intelligence Agency official and lying about it to an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent.
United States Vice President Joe Biden's younger brother has received a suspicious package in his mail from India, containing a powdery substance, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation has ruled as anthrax.
The two assailants walked up to the door, knocked to attract Ravinder's attention and began shooting when he opened the door. "The surveillance camera footage of the suspects has generated many calls and tips," Richmond police Detective Sgt. Mitch Peixoto said, "But so far, nothing has panned out".
The US has sent an Federal Bureau of Investigation team to assist in the probe into the Mumbai attacks as President George W Bush pledged "full support" to India in its efforts to unearth the plot behind the deadly terror strikes.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday said the new terror threat to the city ahead of the 9/11 anniversary is "credible but has not been corroborated". He asked people to remain vigilant as law enforcement officials further heightened security across the city.
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