Word: lashkar
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...Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah told TIME that Rauf has ties to al-Qaeda. "He is the key man, a very important man," says Shah. Pakistani sources say more than 20 people have been arrested there in connection with the plane plot, some of them apparently connected to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a fanatic Islamic militant group that is thought to have been responsible for a suicide bombing at the U.S. consulate in Karachi in 2002 and the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl that year. A Pakistani official says Rauf--possibly with others--had been "visiting the same places...
...commuters; in Bombay and Bihar. The three suspects are the first to be arrested by police investigators, who after the blasts rounded up as many as 350 people-most of them Muslim-for questioning. A fourth man, Abdulkadir Karim Tunda, 64, a suspected member of Kashmir-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, was also detained last Thursday in Kenya. Officials say more arrests are forthcoming...
...Last weekend, police released the names of three suspects, and the focus of the investigation settled on Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a militant Islamic group based in Pakistan. LeT was suspected of working in concert with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). SIMI and LeT were accused of detonating eight bombs in Bombay in late 2002 and 2003, killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter...
...separate bomb attacks in the capital, Srinagar. And while no one said those same insurgents carried out Tuesday's rush-hour train attacks in Bombay - which police said killed at least 130 people and injured 260 - security sources told TIME they suspected a shadowy alliance of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) working with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movemement of India (SIMI...
...Asked who might have carried out the attack, a senior Indian intelligence operative told TIME: "There aren't any definite pointers as yet. Given the target, it's probably an Islamist group, but there's nothing to connect them to Lashkar-e-Toibaa"-a reference to the Pakistani militant group fighting in Kashmir with links to the Pakistani establishment that has carried attacks across India and, until recently, was routinely fingered for any act of violence here. The officer added that the amateur nature of the devices suggested the bombers were poorly funded, and most likely had no support from...