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`Al-Qaeda plan to target Parliament'
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, DEC. 5. The Union Home Minister, Mr. L.K. Advani, today disclosed that the Al-Qaeda terrorist outfit had plans to carry out strikes in India, the U.K. and Australia.
Describing it as a ``very wide, deep-rooted and massive conspiracy'', he told the 74th annual meeting of the FICCI here that his information was based on confessions by a suspected terrorist recently arrested in Mumbai.
Though he did not give the suspect's name, Mr. Advani said that ``shocking'' confessions revealed that he had undertaken training in flying in the U.K. and Australia.
``We have been able to verify some of the basic things which he told the police in Mumbai and these have turned out to be true. We have reasons to believe that the other part of the confessional statement may also be true and it appears to carry some weight,'' he said.
Apart from the September 11 attacks, the Al-Qaeda had plans to target the Parliament House. Mr. Advani said investigations were still on and the leads provided by the suspect were being pursued by the police in Mumbai to verify how far the terror links had spread.
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