Two months after he was shot dead by French special forces, a 23-year-old Algerian origin terrorist was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy here on the direction of his Taliban handlers in Pakistan.Quoting sources from the French Internal Intelligence and the Special Forces, Le Monde reported that Mohamed Merah’s Taliban handlers in Pakistan had tasked him to attack the Indian mission here.
“That was the target given him by the Taliban who prepared him for jihad during his training in Pakistan in the summer of 2011,” the paper quoted sources as saying.
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