Look Who’s Talking (To Whom): FBI And Special Cell

By Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association
21 December, 2010

Wikileaks has exposed that there existed secret channels of communication between the US agency FBI and our very own Delhi Police Special Cell. FBI—which has witchhunted American democratic and civil rights organizations and leaders (including Martin Luther King Jr.), raids the homes of anti-war activists, and helps the overthrow of popular governments around the world—and Special Cell whose personnel have been indicted in the past, by none less than the CBI, for manufacturing ‘terrorists’ out of thin air by planting false evidence; an organization often accused by rights activists of killing in cold blood, a.k.a. ‘encounters’, for medals and promotions. What possible information were they sharing in secret? Who to frame and fix next? Or the merits of water-boarding over indigenous torture techniques?

The UPA government may wring its hands in despair, terming the unofficial communication most ‘improper’, but its lamentations will only appear as crocodile tears till it closes down the FBI office set up in Delhi during the NDA regime. Why allow an outpost in your capital of an agency whose double agent David Headley is the suspected mastermind of 26/11, the biggest ever terror attack on Indian soil? But there is little hope that UPA government will initiate any action beyond mild expressions of disconcertment. Not when the country’s Home Minister pleads with the FBI Director Robert Mueller to allow entry into Headley’s cell so that India could be seen as having access to the prime terror suspect. In a cable to US—leaked by Wikileaks—P. Chidambaram was quoted as saying: “we must be able to say we had access, even if Headley does not speak.” The unnamed Special Cell officer may not have had official sanction to talk, he was certainly following the official line: of surrendering to US security establishment.

The FBI office in Delhi must be closed down immediately! Demand unconditional extradition of David Headley

Released by Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA)