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Key Indian Sites
Four Indian sites are among the targets of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba, according to U.S. cables leaked by Wikileaks.
A comprehensive inventory of vital global sites the U.S. deems “critical infrastructure and key resources” disclosed by WikiLeaks includes chromite mines in Orissa and Karnataka and a pharmaceutical company in Gujarat, Generamedix, which manufactures chemotherapy drugs for cancer patients.
The sites listed in a cable, dated Feb. 18, 2009, from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to U.S. diplomatic outposts abroad, requested diplomats for “compilation and annual update of a of critical infrastructure and key resources that are located outside U.S. borders and whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security, and/or national and homeland security of the U.S.” It explained that under the U.S. Patriot Act of 2001 “critical infrastructure” was defined as systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, “so vital to the U.S. [that] the incapacitation or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact” on U.S. national security. The Indian sites are among the targets of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). |
