Journalist charged with Israel plot

NEW DELHI — Indian police have charged a journalist with conspiring to carry out a bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February, a senior police official said Wednesday. Syed Kazmi, a freelance journalist who worked part-time with Iran’s IRNA news agency, is accused of helping a group of Iranians to plan and execute the attack which saw a man on a motorbike attach a magnetic bomb to an Israeli Embassy car. “We charged Syed Kazmi yesterday under the prevention of unlawful activities act. He has been charged with planning and conspiracy in the February attack,” said anti-terrorism official Ashok Chand, who is supervising the investigation. — AFP