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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (3520)	1/20/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

India says foils planned attacks on US embassy Wednesday January 20, 12:11 pm Eastern Time NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Indian police said on Wednesday they had arrested four people for alleged plans to bomb the United States embassy in New Delhi and its consulates in two other Indian cities. ''One man was arrested in Delhi, and three from Calcutta,'' a police spokesman told Reuters. The man arrested in Delhi was identified as Sayed Abu Nasir, a Bangladeshi national. Police officials quoted city police chief V.N.Singh as saying that six others wanted by the police were believed to be associated with Saudi millionaire and dissident Osama Bin Laden, who was targeted by the United States in missile attacks on Islamic militant camps in Afghanistan last year. The six people hunted by police included a Sudanese, four Egyptians and a Burmese, Indian Express newspaper said. Police officials said the men planned to carry out the attacks on the U.S. embassy on January 26 when India holds its annual Republic Day parade. Police officials pointed the finger at Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for planning out the attacks through mercenaries. Pakistan, India's arch-foe, routinely denies equally routine charges that it funds anti-India violence. ''With Nasir's arrest the plans of foreign mercenaries with active assistance and guidance from the ISI to blow up the U.S. consulates have been neutralised,'' Singh said. Nasir, who was arrested at Delhi railway station earlier this month, has been identified as a Bangladeshi national working for Pakistan's ISI, police said. India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party which leads the federal coalition said the government must crack the whip on what it calls Islamic terrorism. ''We call upon the government to expedite the white paper on ISI activities so that the whole world gets to know the real, ugly face of Islamic terrorism sponsored from across the border,'' BJP vice-president J.P. Mathur said on Wednesday. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------