New Delhi, Sunday 21 March 2010: Security agencies have pressed for questioning the estranged wife of U.S. terror accused David Headley, as certain e-mails downloaded from his account showed her alleged complicity in the Mumbai terror attack.

The e-mails of Headley available with the central security agencies and forming a part of the probe of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been shared with American sleuths, official sources said on Sunday. Headley has pleaded guilty to his involvement in 26/11.

They showed the woman allegedly having an extremist bent of mind and to be in the know of the 49-year-old Headley’s activities in India and Pakistan, the sources said.

The sources said the mails downloaded from Headley’s e-mail account gave a broader picture about his role in India and Pakistan and his links with noted socialites in this megapolis.

The Indian security establishment was also awaiting a response from the U.S.’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the queries sent in connection with Headley’s wife, whose antecedents also have Pakistan links but is a U.S. national.

The access to the personal life of Headley was provided by his estranged Moroccan wife Faiza Outalha, who, the security agencies suspect had carried out reconnaissance of certain installations that were targeted by the Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists in Mumbai on November 26, 2008.

Faiza was married to Headley but had a divorce within a year.

(PTI)