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Militants strike as Pakistan cracks down By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Pakistan is taking action against the banned militant group Laskhar-e-Taiba (LET), which has been linked to the attacks in Mumbai in India last month in which nearly 200 people died. Several people against whom evidence ...
Obama, Pakistan, terrorism
Obama, Pakistan, terrorism
salon.com — Dec. 12, 2008 | A consensus is emerging among intelligence analysts and pundits that Pakistan may be... President-elect Barack Obama's greatest policy challenge. A base for terrorist groups, the country has a fragile new civilian government and a long ... (more) Obama, Pakistan, terrorism
BBC NEWS | South Asia | US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan
BBC NEWS | South Asia | US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan
news.bbc.co.uk — Former US state department official Richard Armitage (file photo, Jan 2005)... (more) BBC NEWS | South Asia | US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan
Pakistan takes minimal steps against banned terror front
longwarjournal.org — One week after the United Nations Security Council declared the Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity a front group for... the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group, the Pakistani government has taken minimal steps to clamp down on the organization. Pakistan ... (more) Pakistan takes minimal steps against banned terror front
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Pakistan Takes On LeT, But Will It Stand?
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who has had his finger on the pulse of Pakistani jihadist movements, believes the moves are merely cosmetic. (Note: Jamaatut Dawa is merely a front group for Lashkar-e-Taiba, it was created after the Lashkar was banned in late 2001.) ...

Pakistan takes minimal steps against banned terror front
The Long War Journal — ... Lakhvi is said to have been interrogated by the US Federal Bureau of Investigations. But the Lashkar-e-Taiba threatened the state with civil war if Lakhvi is "grilled," the Asia Times reported. ...

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