New Delhi, Dec. 17:US officials fear lax security at Indian laboratories could make the facilities targets for terrorists seeking biological weapons to launch attacks across the globe, according to comments in a leaked US diplomatic cable made public on Friday.
The cable was part of a trove of documents sent from the US embassy in New Delhi that was obtained by the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks and published on Friday by the British newspaper The Guardian. One of the cables from June 2006 raised concerns that terrorist groups could take advantage of weak security at Indian laboratories to steal “bacteria, parasites, viruses or toxins.”