CIA warned of Herat attack

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CIA warned of Herat attack

Five warnings from the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S. helped authorities defeat the May 23 strike on the Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, intelligence sources have told The Hindu .

The last operational input from the CIA was delivered to India’s intelligence services two hours after the assault began at 3.15 a.m. Kabul time, the sources said, and identified the assault team as operatives of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Indian diplomatic sources said the CIA’s warnings on the attack began to flow in six weeks before the attacks, and led Indo-Tibetan Border Police guards at the consulate to be placed on high alert. The guards were able to shoot dead a terrorist who attempted to scale the mission’s perimeter defences, while others were killed by the Afghan security forces nearby.

Kabul had earlier blamed the Pakistan-based terrorist group for the attack, believed to have been designed to take hostages ahead of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to New Delhi for the swearing-in of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

CIA warned of Herat attack - The Hindu

 

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Herat attack may have been timed to spoil Sharif’s visit

The flow of CIA warnings on the attack on the Indian Consulate in Herat suggests the attack may have been planned to take place in the weeks after the new Indian government took office, but was speeded up to create a crisis as Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met his new Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, defying warnings from jihadis in Pakistan.

Lashkar chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed had warned Mr. Sharif, at a May 26 rally, against travelling to India, saying it would “bleed the cause of Kashmir’s freedom and irreparably hurt the sentiments of Kashmiris and millions of other Muslims living in India.”

The head of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami party, Liaqat Baloch, also addressed the rally, telling Mr. Sharif that “these Hindu Banias, these Pandit-Brahmins, cannot be anyone’s friends.”

Lashkar in Afghanistan

Long seen as mainly an anti-India group, the Lashkar has been active in Afghanistan in 2006 — beginning operations in that country’s Korengal valley even as it scaled back attacks in Kashmir. Lashkar leaders had stayed out of the fighting in Afghanistan after 9/11, deferring to pressure from Pakistan’s pro-U.S. military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf.

However, as the insurgency in Afghanistan escalated, it began providing logistical support to a sister organisation, the Jamiat al-Dawa al-Quran wal’Sunna.

Herat attack may have been timed to spoil Sharif’s visit - The Hindu