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Mumbai Whodunnit: Names vs. Networks
Counterterrorism Blog — ... and donations both from within Pakistan and from around the world, and the tens of thousands of radical madrassas that indoctrinate Pakistani youth into radical Islam from Pakistan’s bottomless well of unemployed. The author does not discuss some other related factors, such as the complex geography (particularly the mountainous terrain), which makes controlling substantial parts of the country and particularly the Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir a daunting problem. Read the complete post.

Strange normalcy
Belmont Club — The Terror Wonk knows that a journalist’s first problem in writing about anything that happens involving terror on the Indian subcontinent is to answer the question “whodunit”? Finding the answer is rarely easy. In the Mumbai attacks “most of the speculation has focused on Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), although their spokesperson and the spokesperson of their political wing … have both denied their organization’s involvement.” Indeed, ...

Managing Gaza
Counterterrorism Blog — ... Hamas’ supply lines are the tunnels into Egypt. The tunnels themselves are only the endpoint of a vast smuggling network that extends throughout the Sinai and into the heart of Egypt. Egypt is a poor country, the smuggling opportunities are lucrative, and law enforcement is weak. In Kashmir, criminal networks in an impoverished environment have fostered a self-sustaining insurgency. The same situation could occur Gaza. ...