Photo: The mastermind of 26/11, Zakiur Rahman LakhviFrom India Today:
It was an attack that shocked the world for its sheer scale and ruthlessness. The Mumbai mayhem, the first seaborne urban terror assault in over three decades, was carried out by an organisation that is as unpredictable as it is ingenious.
It is also the perfect example of a Janus-faced terror outfit—the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or the ‘army of the pure’—which also camouflages itself as a benign welfare organisation. Indeed, the Jamaatud-Dawa (JuD), a moniker which it adopted after being banned by the US in 2001, calls itself ‘an Islamic relief and welfare organisation striving to provide humanitarian assistance to people in need’. The Lashkar-e-Toiba headquarters at Muridke, 40 km from Lahore, resembles a sprawling Islamic university with schools and libraries.
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My Comment: Pakistan's ISI Security Agency is clearly deeply involved in this terrorism. This is the root of the problem, and one that India is clearly assessing right now.