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Intel czar implicates Lashkar

 

Published 12/3/2008 by Domenico Montanaro at First Read

From NBC's Libby Leist Speaking at Harvard University last night, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell implicated  the group Lashkar-e-Taiba for carrying out the  terrorist  attacks in Mumbai last week  which killed at least 172 people, including six Americans. McConnell did not name Lashkar-e-Taiba  specifically, but he said that the U.S. believes the terrorists responsible for Mumbai were also responsible for the attack on a train in India in 2006 that killed...( read more ) (link)

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