Pak training 'whites' for terror in Europe: Tehelka.com, Quoting Wikileaks
Lookie here, straight from Tehelka.com . The Pakistanies favorite India mouthpiece.
Pak training 'whites' for terror in Europe
The disclosure comes in the latest set of the classified US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks about former NSA Narayanan's meeting with Russ Feingold and Bob Casey in Delhi in 2008
By
Iftikhar Gilani
Delhi
Former National Security Advisor MK
Narayanan
The Indian intelligence agencies' discovery of "whites" getting trained in Pakistan to unleash terror in south and northeast Europe, Somalia, and West Asia, but not in the United States (US) was shared with two American senators in 2008 by then National Security Adviser (NSA) MK Narayanan, who is now the governor of West Bengal.
The disclosure comes in the latest set of the classified US diplomatic telegrams released by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org about Narayanan's meeting with Russ Feingold and Bob Casey in Delhi on May 30, 2008.
This and other inputs of the former NSA were so sensitive that American ambassador David Mulford, who was present at the meeting, lost no time in cabling Washington on the new dimensions to Pakistan's terror tactics.
Another highly sensitive information shared by Narayanan was on the threat of a nuclear attack against India by a non-state actor in a terrorist operation from Pakistan.
The leaked cable says he pointed to the increase in "white recruits" detected by the Indian intelligence in terrorist training camps along the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders. "Those recruits will not be used against India or Asian nations, he pointed out, adding that he has warned his counterparts of the development."
Narayanan also disclosed that India has found a "manifest attempt to get fissile material," though terrorist groups have not yet acquired any. He noted that the Jihadi groups have attempted to acquire fissile material and have the technical competence to manufacture an explosive device beyond a mere dirty bomb.
He lamented that other nations' intelligence agencies lack a common understanding at a time when an incident such as the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai involved planning and fund-raising in up to 11 different countries.
This is the first time a top Indian official has explicitly acknowledged the threat of a nuclear attack against India by a non-state actor. India has consistently refused to talk publicly about any possibility of Indian cities becoming targets of crude nuclear bombs, ostensibly for fear of creating panic among people, especially when cross-border terrorist operations are common.
Narayanan's revelation to the Americans, however, shows that such a threat is real and that Indian security agencies are aware of the danger.
Narayanan also expressed his scepticism about Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister (PM) Yousuf Raza Gilani by pointing out that cross-border infiltration increased after they came to power.
However, India deliberately down played cross-border infiltration at that time to persevere with the dialogue with Pakistan, and it did not formally protest to Islamabad, hoping that it would be a "temporary aberration."
Referring to the presidency of General Pervez Mushrarraf, Narayanan "remembered that hostility between India and Pakistan had dropped to such an extent that Pakistan had at one time withdrawn some of its military from the India-Pakistan border in order to focus on the threats along the border with Afghanistan."
He regretted, however, that "those forces have since returned to the Indian border."
These disclosures show that the former NSA differed with PM Manmohan Singh's Pakistan policy as he saw more threats emanating from Islamabad to make any attempt of resuming the composite dialogue process. It is possible that these differences made the PM transfer Narayanan to the Kolkata Raj Bhawan and made former foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon as his new NSA.
The leaked cable also shows Narayanan's frustration in dealing with Washington beneath the facade that India and the US are "natural allies." Pointing out his dealings with the Americans on terrorism for five years, he told the two senators that he had pleaded in vain during his visits to Washington for greater information sharing, even of bits and pieces.
In what appears prophetic in retrospect over the US bungle over Pakistani American terrorist David Coleman Headley, Narayanan said he had urged his interlocutors in Washington that "what might not make sense to you might make sense to me." But he lamented from the experience of a life-long intelligence man that "we keep our cards close to our chest. It is extremely counter-productive".
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