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NEW DELHI — Indian airports were on high alert Friday after intelligence services received information that Al Qaeda-linked militants were plotting to hijack a plane. Such an attack would be the first major terror strike against India since 10 militants rampaged through the city of Mumbai for three days in November 2008, killing 166 people. Aviation spokeswoman Moushumi Chakravarty said that the airports were placed on alert Thursday after the government received warnings from the intelligence agencies.(continued)

Mumbai: The group of 11 terrorists involved in the Mumbai attacks had boarded a fishing boat near Karachi in Pakistan five days earlier, a senior investigating official revealed on Sunday. According to the investigation, the terror group loaded their arms and ammunition and boarded the boat on November 21 from a location near Karachi, said the official who declined to be identified. All the terrorists - in their 20s - are said to be members of the Lashker-E-Taiba (LeT), he said. They all had undergone rigorous training in terror camps in which they learnt all ways to create terror, especially...

New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) : The Lashker-e-Taiba, a powerful Pakistan-based terror group active in Jammu and Kashmir, has raised a "full-blown unit for suicide squad operations against Western forces" in Iraq, a media report said Sunday. Up to 2,000 men between the ages of 18 and 25 have reportedly signed up for the Lashker's armed operations in Iraq, the authoritative The Hindu reported in a lead story. Sources close to Lashker's overall head, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, were quoted as saying the group hoped to send at least some suicide squad members to Iraq overland through the porous Iran-Pakistan border....