Word: lashkar
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...well-wishers donated tents, blankets, food and even cloth for burial shrouds. Among the first responders were militant Islamic groups, who seized on the catastrophe to blame Musharraf's alliance with the U.S. in the war on terrorism for incurring Allah's wrath. In Chehla Bandi village, members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an outlawed group sympathetic to al-Qaeda, cooked food, helped bury the dead and shoveled through the debris to find the living. "They saved us when nobody came from the government," says a survivor, Ali Geelani, 28. "Musharraf has given us the earthquake; they have given us life...
...Second, the end of American ambiguity toward terrorism is beginning to work. Its allies in the war against terror, including Musharraf, cannot sustain a policy of equivocation. Pakistan-based organizations such as Jaish-e-Mohammad or Lashkar-e-Toiba, dedicated to keeping the Kashmir fire burning, find their profile has changed: instead of heroes, they have become the hunted. It is not only India that wants them now, but also their own government...
...which has carried out similar bombings in the past. The authorities say they have yet to find any links between SIMI, the Hanifs and Ansari, but, says Bombay's joint Commissioner of Police Satya Pal Singh, "we suspect they might exist." The police also see the hidden hand of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant Islamic group committed to ending Indian rule in Kashmir. Police believe Hanif was recruited by Lashkar while working as an electrician at a hotel in Dubai and returned to Chimatpada in 2002 as a hardened extremist trained in the use of explosives. Police suspect...
...might have been involved. And Umar wasn't coy about his willingness to use outside help, saying that "Whatever support we need, we ask and they give us." A Dubai-based Islamic militant leader even suggests that SIMI is part of a loose terror alliance that includes the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammmad, as well as Palestinian and other Middle Eastern groups. He says operatives have named themselves Ikhwan (brothers) and are sworn to avenge atrocities or injustices against Muslims in India, Israel and even Europe...
...blame for the Bombay attack. Visiting the scene of the blasts, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani declared, "Pakistan's nefarious designs are not limited to Kashmir or Punjab but to the whole of India." He specifically cited his suspicion that "SIMI has been acting in conjunction with the Lashkar-e-Toiba." Similarly, Gujarat's BJP chief minister, Narendra Modi, who returned to office last November on a wave of Hindu self-assertion, blames what he calls Pakistani secret-service "modules." And he denies any personal responsibility for sparking an anti-Hindu backlash. "There is a fashion to blame everything...