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Terror Group Poses New Threat To U.S
Under control of Pakistan’s intelligence service
WND
WASHINGTON – A Pakistani terrorist group involved in the notorious Mumbai, India, terrorist attack in 2008 is becoming a new threat to the U.S. homeland, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
It is the Lashkar-e-Taiba, or LeT, which analysts agree is posing an increasing threat to the United States.
Affiliated with al-Qaida, LeT is one of Pakistan’s oldest Sunni militant groups, according to Stephen Tankel of the Washington think-tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Tankel said LeT is an emerging threat at this stage and believes the United States needs to reallocate intelligence resources to focus more on this Islamist militant group.
LeT has put the U.S. on its enemies list and has been actively attacking U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan since 2005.
LeT had sent fighters into Iraq to fight the U.S. invasion there and has killed Americans and other Westerners in India.
“The group has the capabilities to launch terrorist attacks outside of South Asia, including against the U.S., and is likely working to augment those capabilities,” Tankel said.
Islamabad likely will ignore U.S. requests to dismantle the group because it is an instrument of the Pakistani government.
Complicating matters, U.S. policy toward Pakistan appears to be conflicted.
The U.S. has decided to work more closely with the Pakistani military because of its connections with the Taliban and because the U.S. hopes to negotiate with the Taliban in an effort to find an orderly way out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
Reposted with permission.
