National Security: Terror Outfits Target India

06/04/2010
India's political establishment on LeT's radar: Experts
Washington: Warning that India's transportation, economic infrastructure and political establishment are on the LeT's radar, a US Defence Department think tank has said the terror outfit still enjoys funding from ISI and is also assisted by the Karachi-based D-Company of Dawood Ibrahim.

The LeT, though having a close relationship with al-Qaeda, will continue to evolve into a distinctive, South Asia-centric terrorist actor in its own right while still receiving aid from fringe elements in Pakistan's security and intelligence apparatus and elsewhere, the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College said.

This will not only allow LeT to continue to plan future Mumbai-style terrorist attacks in India from safe havens in Pakistan, but will also enable it to guide and assist the predominantly indigenous Indian Mujahideen (IM), it said.

Authored by Ryan Clarke, the 117-page report 'Lashkar-I-Taiba: The Fallacy of Subservient Proxies and the Future of Islamist Terrorism in India' gives the first-of-its kind detailed analysis of the outfit.

The report said the troubling fact is that the LeT has upgraded its activities and has begun to operate throughout India and will likely target transportation and economic infrastructure and the political establishment as opposed to Indian security forces exclusively.

"It has also adopted new methods of destabilisation such as recruiting from India's troubled northeast and smuggling militants into India by sea, a serious infringement on India's sovereignty," it said.

"Despite being a proscribed outfit, LeT still enjoys funding from ISI and through donations from a wide range of domestic and overseas sympathisers, including Indian Muslims.

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One thinks these news are being spread purposely by the politicians so that they get more bodyguards and make the people fools. The Mumbai type attack has to be prevented at all costs. The terrorist funding by Hawala, Black Money, Money Laundering, Smuggling, Drug Peddling, Fake and Counterfeit Money, Real Estate Dealings, Illegal Mining, Swiss Money- mostly resorted to by Smugglers, Criminal Politicians and other Anti- Nationals need to arrested. Does the Nation have the Political Will to take on the Goons and dry up the Terror Funding?