According to a story by The New York Times, the US gave Canada with intelligence after the death of Sikh terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, but conversations intercepted by Ottawa led it to suspect India of masterminding the attack.
A senior US ambassador in Canada said on Saturday that “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” was what led Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accuse India of being responsible for the death of the Khalistani fanatic. The Indian terrorist Nijjar was assassinated in Surrey on June 18.
Following the claims made public by the Canadian prime minister on Monday, India categorically dismissed them as “absurd” and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in retaliation for Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian official over the matter. India said that Canada provides a refuge for terrorists.
India has been requested by the United States to assist Canada in its investigation. The NYT stated, citing an anonymous source, that “US intelligence agencies provided their Canadian counterparts with context after the killing that helped Canada conclude that India had been involved.” However, the alleged “smoking gun,” intercepted communications of Indian diplomats in Canada suggesting complicity in the plan, was acquired by Canadian investigators, according to allied officials.
US representative in Canada According to David Cohen in an interview with CTV News, Trudeau was notified of the potential participation of Indian operatives in the death of a Canadian citizen in June via “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners.” “I’ll just say that this included sharing intelligence data. The United States and Canada had extensive contact about this, and I believe that’s as far as I feel comfortable going,” Cohen told CTV News.
According to two allied officials, American officials informed their Canadian counterparts after Nijjar’s murder that Washington had no prior knowledge of the plot and that if it had, it would have immediately notified Ottawa in accordance with the “duty to warn” doctrine of the intelligence agencies.
According to the story, the sources stated that Nijjar had received a broad warning from Canadian authorities but had not been informed that he was the target of an Indian government operation. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss what has caused a diplomatic uproar. Cohen said to CTV that the US takes these accusations extremely seriously. In answer to a query, he added, “And, you know, if they prove to be true, it is a potentially very serious breach of the rules-based international order in which we like to function.”
On Friday, Trudeau said that Canada had “many weeks ago” communicated with India information on the murder of Nijjar. Ottawa wants New Delhi to cooperate positively with Ottawa to gather information regarding the “very serious matter.” But this week, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) declared: “Canada has not supplied any particular information on this subject, either at the time or afterwards. We are happy to look at any particular facts, as we have said or, in my opinion, have made quite obvious.
