US shared with India Lashkar plot to kill Narendra Modi
The Lashkar-e-Toiba's plan to kill Narendra Modi last year, as gleaned from a Wikilieaks cable, was shared by the United States with India, sources have said.
Sources have said the US tipped off the Ministry of Home Affairs here, which in turn, alerted the police of both Gujarat and Maharashtra about the planned attacks on Modi
The specific intel received was that Modi would be targetted by the terrorist group when he campaigned in Maharashtra before the state's Assembly elections. Around this time, intelligence had also sniffed a plot to blow up the Somnath Temple in Saurashtra, Gujarat.
The Bharatiya Janata Party will also request Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to upgrade the security cover of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who is on the hitlist of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and other terrorist groups.
The plan to kill Modi was discussed last June, barely six months after the Lashkar carried out the Mumbai terror attacks, which makes it clear the group did not plan any breaks in its terrorist missions in India.
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