satp.org - 11/27/2008
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'Army of the Pure' Formation Formed in 1990 in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (also known as Jama'at-ud-Da'awa) is based in Muridke near Lahore in Pakistan and is headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Its first presence in Jammu and Kashmir (J ) was recorded in 1993 when 12 ...
longwarjournal.org - 11/29/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
Sixty-two hours after Islamist terrorists launched a multi-pronged
assault of India's financial capital of Mumbai, Indian commandos...
killed the last fighter holed up in a five-star hotel and ended the siege that paralyzed the city. Indian security ...
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Indian commandos end 62-hour siege of Mumbai
juancole.com - 11/30/2008
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juancole.com —
Many Indians have called the attacks in Mumbai
"India's 9/11." As an American who lived in India,...
I can feel that country's anguish over these horrific and indiscriminate acts of terror. Most Indian observers, however, were critical in 2001 and ...
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India: Please Don't Go Down the Bush- Cheney Road
revolution.muslimpad.com - 11/28/2008
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Here are a few points regarding the Mumbai
battle: Nobody can really confirm who is exactly behind...
the attacks. All that is gathered so far from the Kuffaar and Fusaaq media sources is that there's a group called "Deccan Mujahideen." Deccan refers ...
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Mumbai Attacks: Strategic Convergence
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. —
... and several terrorism experts on the foreign cable news seem to indicate the probability that Deccan Mujihadeen is related to the Lashkar-e-Toiba . Laskhar-e-Toiba has significant ties with other major Islamist terror networks, including Al Qaeda, in both the Waziristan and Kashmiri provinces and Pakistan and Afghanistan in general. The attacks were well organized and bigger than any attacks to date. The attackers came in via a larger boat in the port of ...
Indian commandos end 62-hour siege of Mumbai
The Long War Journal —
... Like al Qaeda, the Lashkar-e-Taiba seeks to establish a Muslim caliphate in southern and central Asia. Lashkar-e-Taiba "consistently advocated the use of force and vowed that it would plant the 'flag of Islam' in Washington, Tel Aviv and New Delhi," the Southeast Asia Terrorism Portal reported. Also, like al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba practices Wahabism, the radical Islamist school of thought born in Saudi Arabia. ...
A Quick Backgrounder on Lashkar-e-Taiba
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Like al Qaeda, the Lashkar-e-Taiba seeks to establish a Muslim caliphate in southern and central Asia. Lashkar-e-Taiba "consistently advocated the use of force and vowed that it would plant the 'flag of Islam' in Washington, Tel Aviv and New Delhi," the Southeast Asia Terrorism Portal reported. Also, like al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba practices Wahabism, the radical Islamist school of thought born in Saudi Arabia. ...
Israel Calls Up Reservists, Pakistan Continues Redeployment
Firedoglake —
... attacks were not the worst in people killed, there have been others worse. However it is the brutality which is notable: victims were forced to strip, and their genitals mutilated. Even doctors used to attacks were shocked at the gratuitousness of the violation.
As a result of the attacks, India's ruling party needed to "get tough" and made unreasonable demands and threats over the atttacks, which everyone knew sourced from groups in Pakistan such as the LeT that are only nominally answerable to the government. Pakistan's government redeployed ...
The Farmer’s Daughter
Fausta's Blog —
... the article doesn’t call the attacker the “t” word until the third paragraph from the bottom,
She may also receive a £4,000 reward if, as police believe, the dead terrorist is confirmed as Uzafa Shah, a wanted Pakistani LeT commander who had been active in the area for the past four years.
At least they used the “t” word twice in the title.
The article also forgets to mention that the Pakistani LeT is an Islamist Jihadi group.
(hat tip: DaMav)
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