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...Sunday, Indian media began reporting that the only attacker captured alive, a Versace-T-shirted 21-year-old by the name of Ajmal Amir Kamal, was Pakistani, and that he had identified all his fellow militants as being trained by the banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba. Pakistanis are suspicious of these claims. "There is simply not enough evidence at this point to blame Pakistan," says Najam Sethi, editor of the English political weekly, the Friday Times. "No statement made under duress can be counted as 100% fact, and you can imagine the conditions under which this confession...
...haven in Pakistan to a variety of militant groups fighting the Indian government: Kashmir terrorist groups such as the Hizbul-Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammed; the insurgents in India's northeast such as the United Liberation Front of Assam; and Islamist organizations such as the Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, which have been accused of plotting a series of bombings across India over the past five years. Unofficial reports have alleged links between the ISI and the 1993 Mumbai (formerly Bombay) bombings that killed more than 250 people, and Indian officials have claimed to have evidence that...
...injured from other blasts were being brought in. (Later, in Surat, a center for the world's diamond industry, a bomb was defused near a hospital, and two cars packed with explosives were found in the city's outskirts.) Investigators pointed fingers at the usual Islamist suspects: Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul Jihadi Islami (HUJI) and the indigenous Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). But even as the police searched for clues, the Ahmedabad attacks were owned up by a group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen...
Hicks' bizarre journey began in November 1999, when the former kangaroo skinner and roustabout boarded a plane to Pakistan and made contact with the terrorist group Lashkar-i-Tayyba. Known to fellow recruits as Mohammed Dawood or Abu Muslim al Austraili, Hicks entered the Lashkar-i-Tayyba training system, learned how to use a range of weapons and toured the front lines in Kashmir - the disputed territory over which Pakistan wages its long-running battle with India - claiming in letters home that he had fired weapons across the border. He later moved to Afghanistan, where he underwent training...
...probable there are links between Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and al-Qaeda," says Grare, "but it is certain they do have links to the government." He adds, "If the government itself says Lashkar-i-Jhangvi is involved, it is suicidal because it opens the door to speculation about their own role." Indeed, while Pakistani authorities have had a hand in encouraging groups like Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Lashkar-i-Tayyba, Islamabad has done little to systematically dismantle these jihadist "armies" now that their original purposes - fighting the Soviets and supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan or fighting the Indians in Kashmir...