Mumbai: There is an Intelligence alert over a possible terror attack on the US Consulate in Mumbai and Kolkata, according to sources. Sources say that the Mumbai Police has been alerted by the Western Naval Command Headquarters about a possible terror attack on the US Consulate in Mumbai in July.
CNN-IBN has also learned that the US Consulate officials are the target after an anonymous letter with Al-Jihad logo was sent to them. The letter warns of an attack on not just the consulate in Mumbai, but also on the US Consulate in Kolkata.
The letter with the Mumbai Police has been sent to the US Consulate and a response is awaited. The police are in the process of checking the veracity of the letter.
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01:45 PM, May 06, 2013
At least 12 people were killed and 31 injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan Friday as a convoy of security personnel near the US Consulate in Peshawar city was targeted police said. The suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a Frontier Constabulary convoy in a high security area of the city, Dawn reported. ...
11:58 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Thailand has beefed up security at the US consulate in the northern province city of Chiang Mai after receiving information that al Qaeda and Salafist terrorists were planning to launch a three-pronged attack on it this month. ...
04:26 PM, Feb 12, 2013
The Russian consulate in Syria's Aleppo city has suspended operations, said the Russian foreign ministry. This follows the twin blasts that killed 80 people in the city Tuesday. ...
10:58 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before key Congressional committees on January 22, on the deadly militant attack on a US Consulate in Benghazi, in which the US Ambassador to Libya and three other American were killed. Clinton's testimony before the House and Senate foreign relations committees had to be postponed due to her illness. ...
07:59 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Chennai: If you thought that the scene near the US Consulate in Chennai resembled that of a Vishnu temple in the month of Purattasi, you could scarcely be faulted for the misconception. With the interviews for visas to the USA restarting after a week of protests, applicants decided to leave little to chance as the crowd starting to build, from as early as 5.30 am. The strong contingent of police...
02:09 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it was a "terrorist attack" that killed the American ambassador to Libya and three others, and she says the US will not rest until those responsible are brought to justice. Clinton told reporters on Friday at the State Department that, quote, "what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack." And she said the US would track down, quote, the "terrorists who...
10:45 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Benghazi: Pro-government demonstrators stormed the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia group in Benghazi on Friday and evicted fighters from the site in a sweep of militia bases in the Libyan city, witnesses said. Militia fighters made a stand at another heavily fortified compound across the eastern city, firing on demonstrators with heavy machine guns and wounding several people, protesters said. Ansar al-Sharia has been linked to the attack on...
10:08 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Chennai: The United States Consulate General in the city, which had suspended its visa services since Friday following an attack by protesting members of an Islamic organisation, said that it will resume its services on Monday even as Consul General Jennifer McIntyre met City Police Commissioner S George for over 30 minutes here on Thursday. Sources said the US Consulate here would interview over 1,000 applicants per day on any...
02:27 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Washington: The assault on the US consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a "terrorist attack" that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top US counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday. Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars struck the consulate on September 11, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States. US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died. "They were killed in...
08:36 AM, Sep 20, 2012
Chennai: The row over the anti-Islam film has sparked fresh violence in Chennai with the police resorting to lathicharge to control the protestors outside the US consulate in the Tamil Nadu capital. The police had to resort to lathicharge as the protests turned violent and pelted stones on policemen. The protestors also set some vehicles on fire. Some of the protestors had to be chased by the police. Meanwhile, the...
06:20 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Chennai: The US Consulate in Chennai has shut down its visa section for two days following protests against a film said to be 'anti-Islam'. There have been protests at the consulate for the past three days. Almost 500 members of minority party TMMK shouted slogans and pelted stones outside the consulate on Friday. Another outfit is planning to hold a demonstration on Tuesday. ...
08:26 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Chennai: Hundreds of Muslims on Saturday held protests at different places in Tamil Nadu against an anti-Islam film that has triggered anti-US protests worldwide even as security for the US Consulate here was beefed up. Protests were held in Madurai, Rameswaram and Kumbakonam where the participants condemned the film that has triggered violence in many countries and led to the killing of the US ambassador in Libya. A senior police...
10:05 PM, Sep 16, 2012
On Friday, a group of about 500 people vandalised the US consulate building and burned effigies of President Barack Obama, over a US movie that reportedly has anti-Islamic overtones. ...
05:53 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Chennai: Activists of a Muslim party picketed the American consulate in Chennai on Friday and pelted stones at it protesting against a controversial film deemed to be offensive of Islam. Slogan-shouting Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam activists used logs besides stones to damage window panes of a structure in the front of the heavily fortified consulate, police said. Scores of TMMK activists were detained, police said. While initially police managed...
10:33 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazagham members on Friday held a protest outside the US consulate in Chennai. Reports said that the protestors pelted stone on the US consulate and ran away. Security was tightened after the incident. ...
06:24 PM, Sep 14, 2012
Libyan Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur has confirmed that four people have been arrested in connection with the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on Wednesday. He added saying that three or four more people are being pursued. ...
09:41 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Condemning the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, CNN's Fareed Zakaria says the attack in a sense was directed at the government of Libya because it is an ally of the US, it is a democratically-elected government and is anti-extremist. ...
09:24 AM, Sep 14, 2012
Benghazi: The US dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli on Wednesday after the mob attack that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans. Officials were investigating whether the rampage was a backlash to an anti-Islamic video with ties to Coptic Christians or a plot to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11. Tuesday's stunning attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi poses a daunting task for US and...
08:52 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to bring to justice the killers of the US ambassador and three other diplomats in Libya as he sought to avoid election-year fallout from an attack that cast a spotlight on his administration's handling of "Arab Spring" unrest. Standing in the White House Rose Garden, Obama condemned the attack in Benghazi as "outrageous and shocking" but insisted it would not harm relations with...
08:36 AM, Sep 13, 2012
