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Terrorism fears for India’s nuclear industry

India puts nuclear facilities on alert over suspected terror threat. Canada.com By David Akin, Canwest News Service November 17, 2009

NEW DELHI – Nuclear power facilities in India have been put on high alert here after security forces determined that terrorists may target one of them.

Intelligence agencies beefed up security after analysing new information, some of which may have come from Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-born Canadian citizen who is in FBI custody in Chicago………………..

Reports of increased security at India’s nuclear installations made the front page of India’s major papers on Tuesday.

One of those papers, The Hindu, reported that intelligence agencies here and in other countries, have determined that Rana was in Mumbai just before the 11/ 26 terror attacks in that city that left more than 190 dead in 2008, including two Canadians………………The Times of India reported that Rana was able to receive multiple entry visas from the Indian consulate in Chicago ahead of his arrival here in October 2008…………….Those revelations are made by the FBI in court filings in Chicago.

India puts nuclear facilities on alert over suspected terror threat.

November 18, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, India, safety | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radioactive