26 11 Cables

• WikiLeaks: US wanted to question Hafiz Saeed days after 26/11

  Jamaat ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed tops the list of India's most-wanted men for masterminding the 26/11 Mumbai attacks of 2008. Today, Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, who has pleaded guilty to laying the ground work for the Mumbai terror attacks, testified in a US court, exposing the role of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and ...

• WikiLeaks: Pak terror threats gave PM Manmohan Singh 'sleepless nights'

  In the summer of 2009, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, newly victorious in the Lok Sabha elections, was quoted as telling US Under Secretary William Burns that "he did not sleep well at night" knowing that intelligence information "demonstrated that the threat of terror attacks after Mumbai was far from over."A cable sent from the US embassy ...

• WikiLeaks: Hillary Clinton told Pak to prevent LeT attack on India

  Months after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the US seems to have had information that terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was plotting more attacks in India. A worried US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had issued a warning for Pakistan in a cable sent to the US Embassy in Islamabad. NDTV has exclusive access, through Wikileaks, to the cable sent in J...

• Headley had "hatred" towards India: Wikileaks

  American-born Lashker-e-Toiba terrorist David Headley, accused of plotting Mumbai terror attack in 2008, had "hatred" towards India and warned that he would stop helping the probe if his admission of guilt was linked to cooperation with New Delhi.According to a secret US embassy cable made public by Wikileaks, this was conveyed by FBI Director Robe...

• WikiLeaks: India's tough talk with US

  The latest WikiLeaks revelations expose the tough talk that took place between the United States and India post 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. (Read Cable: Menon says Ahmadinejad played to masses during India visit)A cable from a US diplomat in India quotes former Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon telling Richard Boucher, the then Assistant Secreta...

• WikiLeaks: US feared Mumbai-style attack in UK

  The US felt that Britain made "little progress" in reaching out to Muslim communities despite investing "considerable time and resources" and feared that a Mumbai-style attack could be launched in the UK, according to secret American cables released by WikiLeaks.The cables published by The Guardian today present a powerful critique of the UK govern...

• WikiLeaks: Congress party stung playing religious politics

  Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 13:26C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 NEW DELHI 003228 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS EO 12958 DECL: 12/22/2018 TAGS PGOV, PREL, PTER, KISL, IN SUBJECT: CONGRESS PARTY STUNG PLAYING RELIGIOUS POLITICS WITH TERRORISMREF: MUMBAI 518Classified By: PolCouns Ted Osius for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)1. (C) Summary: On the floor o...

• Zardari agreed to send ISI chief to India after 26/11

  Pakistan's powerful Army had vetoed President Asif Ali Zardari's proposal to send ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha to New Delhi that came on British insistence to calm down tensions with India following the Mumbai terror attack, a secret US cable made public by WikiLeaks shows.The confidential document shows that the then British Foreign Secretary David...

• WikiLeaks: India cables on 26/11, tensions with Pakistan and more

  Among a quarter million secret US documents released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, a total of 3,038 classified cables are from the American embassy in New Delhi. According to WikiLeaks there are as many as 5,087 records amongst the leaked cables that refer to India.The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, ...

• WikiLeaks: Pak reactions to 26/11

  S E C R E T ISLAMABAD 003716 EO 12958 DECL: 11/28/2018 TAGS PREL, PGOV, PTER, IN, UK, PK SUBJECT: PAKISTAN REACTIONS TO TERROR IN MUMBAI Classified By: Gerald Feierstein, CDA, for reasons 1.4 (b,d)1. (S) Summary. President Zardari, PM Gilani and FM Qureshi have made all the right public statements condemning the November 27-28 militant attacks in M...

• WikiLeaks: What diplomats in Delhi said after 26/11

  Tuesday, 02 December 2008, 15:09C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 NEW DELHI 003044SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 12/02/2018 TAGS PGOV, PTER, PHUM, PREL, PINR, KDEM, KISL, PK, IN SUBJECT: MUMBAI ATTACKS UPDATE: DIPLOMATS IN DELHI DELIVER UNITED MESSAGESREF: A. NEW DELHI 3025 B. NEW DELHI 3024 C. NEW DELHI 3018 D. MUMBAI 550Classified By: PolCouns Ted ...

• 26/11 closed door for talks on Kashmir: US envoy told Holbrooke

  Washington: The Mumbai terror attacks, which were carried out by the Pakistan-based LeT terror outfit, closed the door for any Indo-Pak discussions on Kashmir, according to a top American diplomat. The remarks by the then American ambassador to Islamabad Anne Patterson were part of a cable dated February 4, 2009, which she wrote for US special...

• Would respond if India attacked: Zardari told US after 26/11

  In the tense post 26/11 scenario, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had told the US that Islamabad would have no option but to respond militarily if India chose to launch an attack on its territory, secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show. (Read: Entire Cable on Zardari Comments on India)In a meeting with the then US Ambassador to ...