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...terrorist attacks in Mumbai were not the most recent avatar of some insidious force of radical Islam sweeping across continents and cities throughout the world, using terrorist means to bring down democracy, kill the infidels, and raise the crescent banner over the rooftops of the world. Lashkar-e-Taiba is indeed an Islamic terror group, and may even form part of a larger network of groups located in the NWFP and along the border with Afghanistan...
...Mumbai. Early on Saturday, Indian authorities revealed that two men had been arrested for illegally providing SIM cards to the attackers; one of them is believed to be a police officer from the Indian-occupied half of the disputed region of Kashmir, who reportedly had contact with members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group who are under suspicion for orchestrating the Mumbai attacks. It is the first evidence so far that the attackers had help within India...
...surrounded by newly angry anti-Western neighbors. Mahhoman Singh should consider how India would look as the next injured giant lashing out at enemies it can’t see or mired in war for the during election season. Ironically, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has already linked the Lashkar group to al-Qaeda. India would do best to steer as far away from that route as possible...
Witness Islamabad's response to India's call for the chief of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) organization to visit India to assist the investigation. The ISI is an arm of the Pakistani military that has long cultivated jihadist groups ranging from the Taliban to Lashkar e-Toiba (LeT), prime suspect in the Mumbai massacre. Pakistan's government immediately announced that Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha would fly to India to comply with New Delhi's request. A day later, however, Pakistan changed its tune - reportedly following a midnight meeting between army chief General Ashfaq Kiyani, on one side...
...press in Islamabad, Rice shied away from pointing a finger at Pakistan, saying only that Pakistan had a "special responsibility" in dealing with the aftermath of the attacks. This was despite the claims of an anonymous American defense official in the New York Times linking the militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which allegedly trained the Mumbai attackers, to ex-officers in Pakistan's intelligence service. Indian officials believe that the LeT masterminded these attacks, as well as previous ones on the country's Parliament building in 2001 - grounds, some suggest, for targeted strikes against the group's base...