May 11, 2003	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 8, 1424

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NEW DELHI, May 10: India’s National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra, currently on an official visit to the United States, has proposed an “anti-terror alliance” between the US, Israel and India.

“Such an alliance would have the political will and moral authority to take bold decisions in extreme cases of terrorist provocation,” Mr Mishra said in an address to the American Jewish Community in Washington on Friday.

He said preventive measures like blocking financial supplies, disrupting networks, sharing intelligence and simplifying intelligence procedures could only be effective through international cooperation.

This is not the first time India has proposed such a triad, stressing that the three democracies were all targets of international terrorism.

Mr Mishra on Friday met US Secretary of State Colin Powell, a day after talks with his US counterpart, Condoleezza Rice.

The Indian official also had a 15-minute unscheduled meeting with US President George Bush when he went to the White House to meet Condoleezza Rice.

The Press Trust of India called the meeting “substantive”.

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Mr Mishra and Mr Powell had a “very good meeting on a broad range of issues in US-India relations, but also about the question of India’s relations with Pakistan”.

Mishra told reporters in Washington that he had renewed an invitation to President Bush to visit India. The president said he was keen to visit India, but would not say when. —AFP