US fears theft of bioweapons from India labs

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 Friday.
The cable was part of a trove of documents sent from the US Embassy in New Delhi that was obtained by the website WikiLeaks and published Friday by the British newspaper The Guardian.
The cables also dealt with accusations of Indian torture in Kashmir, India's complaints about Pakistan's handling of the Mumbai terror attacks, and the concerns of Rahul Gandhi -- seen as India's prime-minister-in-waiting -- that Hindu extremists posed a greater danger to India than Islamist militants.