Wikileaks Terrorism

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi should apologise for "defaming Hindus globally", the BJP said a day after five persons, including Swami Aseemanand, a saffron-robed monk, were acquitted in an 11-year-old terror case.

The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington's fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools.

American officials knew for a very long time that the ISI had created various terrorist groups, including those based out from Nepal, to carry out attacks in India including the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast, according to the latest US cables released by Wikileaks.

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 ...

In revelations that could further embarrass Pakistan, WikiLeaks has released a fresh set of US diplomatic cables that show how the country's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), allowed militants to go to India to carry out strikes on targets chosen by the Pakistan army.The revelations are part of nearly 800 interrogation reports of s...

Britain faces terror threats from home-grown suicide bombers who are not on the radar of intelligence agencies, and the danger is not expected to abate "anytime soon," counter-intelligence officials in the UK have warned, according to documents released by WikiLeaks.The bombers, who pose a "unique" threat to Britain, are from a generation of 'home-...

On Day 2 of the Congress plenary, which marks 125 years of the party, the main agenda is an offensive on RSS-terror links. The Congress resolution is expected to ask the government to investigate RSS-terror links, two days after a huge controversy broke out with WikiLeaks revelations that Rahul Gandhi had spoken to US envoy Tim Roemer about Hindu t...

A day after whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks posted secret cables about talks between Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and US Ambassador Timothy Roemer on terrorism, there are some more uncomfortable revelations.According to a diplomatic cable sent by the US embassy in April 2006, terror in the Northeast was not a priority for the Governmen...

A day after the political storm over Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's reported comments on Hindu terror, the Congress was on the offensive.Sources tell NDTV the party is likely to ask the government to probe RSS' terror links.However, interestingly, the Congress has decided to drop the phrase 'Hindu terror' and will replace it with the mor...

US diplomats were concerned that India could be the target of a biological terror attack, with fatal diseases such as anthrax being released into the country before spreading around the world, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.The confidential cables revealed that a senior Indian diplomat told the US in 2006 that concerns about b...

Australia's former premier Kevin Rudd had told the US that it should be ready to "deploy force" if attempts to integrate China with the international community do not yield results, secret cables released by WikiLeaks have disclosed, prompting an embarrassed Australia to insist that it continues to have strong ties with Beijing.According to a secre...

Nine years after the United States vowed to shut down the money pipeline that finances terrorism, senior Obama administration officials say they believe that many millions of dollars are flowing largely unimpeded to extremist groups worldwide, and they have grown frustrated by frequent resistance from allies in the Middle East, according to secret ...

Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba had planned to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and use Kerala and Tamil Nadu as base for carrying out strikes in southern India, according to a secret US diplomatic cable.

Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 13:31S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 ISLAMABAD 002427 SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 10/06/2019 TAGS PREL, PGOV, PTER, PK SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH KAYANI AND PASHA ABOUT KERRY-LUGARClassified By: Anne W. Patterson, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)1. (S) Summary: Ambassador heard a number of complaints about the Kerry-Lugar bill from CO...

Among a quarter million secret US documents released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, 2,220 cables originate from the US embassy in Islamabad. While there are some surprises in these Islamabad cables, other bits confirm India's long standing fears about Pakistan - especially it's inability to act against terror groups. The then US amba...

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi should apologise for "defaming Hindus globally", the BJP said a day after five persons, including Swami Aseemanand, a saffron-robed monk, were acquitted in an 11-year-old terror case.

The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering Washington's fight against terror threats by releasing what the anti-secrecy site claimed was a trove of CIA hacking tools.

American officials knew for a very long time that the ISI had created various terrorist groups, including those based out from Nepal, to carry out attacks in India including the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast, according to the latest US cables released by Wikileaks.

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 ...

In revelations that could further embarrass Pakistan, WikiLeaks has released a fresh set of US diplomatic cables that show how the country's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), allowed militants to go to India to carry out strikes on targets chosen by the Pakistan army.The revelations are part of nearly 800 interrogation reports of s...

Britain faces terror threats from home-grown suicide bombers who are not on the radar of intelligence agencies, and the danger is not expected to abate "anytime soon," counter-intelligence officials in the UK have warned, according to documents released by WikiLeaks.The bombers, who pose a "unique" threat to Britain, are from a generation of 'home-...

On Day 2 of the Congress plenary, which marks 125 years of the party, the main agenda is an offensive on RSS-terror links. The Congress resolution is expected to ask the government to investigate RSS-terror links, two days after a huge controversy broke out with WikiLeaks revelations that Rahul Gandhi had spoken to US envoy Tim Roemer about Hindu t...

A day after whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks posted secret cables about talks between Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and US Ambassador Timothy Roemer on terrorism, there are some more uncomfortable revelations.According to a diplomatic cable sent by the US embassy in April 2006, terror in the Northeast was not a priority for the Governmen...

A day after the political storm over Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's reported comments on Hindu terror, the Congress was on the offensive.Sources tell NDTV the party is likely to ask the government to probe RSS' terror links.However, interestingly, the Congress has decided to drop the phrase 'Hindu terror' and will replace it with the mor...

US diplomats were concerned that India could be the target of a biological terror attack, with fatal diseases such as anthrax being released into the country before spreading around the world, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.The confidential cables revealed that a senior Indian diplomat told the US in 2006 that concerns about b...

Australia's former premier Kevin Rudd had told the US that it should be ready to "deploy force" if attempts to integrate China with the international community do not yield results, secret cables released by WikiLeaks have disclosed, prompting an embarrassed Australia to insist that it continues to have strong ties with Beijing.According to a secre...

Nine years after the United States vowed to shut down the money pipeline that finances terrorism, senior Obama administration officials say they believe that many millions of dollars are flowing largely unimpeded to extremist groups worldwide, and they have grown frustrated by frequent resistance from allies in the Middle East, according to secret ...

Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba had planned to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and use Kerala and Tamil Nadu as base for carrying out strikes in southern India, according to a secret US diplomatic cable.

Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 13:31S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 03 ISLAMABAD 002427 SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 10/06/2019 TAGS PREL, PGOV, PTER, PK SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH KAYANI AND PASHA ABOUT KERRY-LUGARClassified By: Anne W. Patterson, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)1. (S) Summary: Ambassador heard a number of complaints about the Kerry-Lugar bill from CO...

Among a quarter million secret US documents released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, 2,220 cables originate from the US embassy in Islamabad. While there are some surprises in these Islamabad cables, other bits confirm India's long standing fears about Pakistan - especially it's inability to act against terror groups. The then US amba...