From Kashmiri Insurgents to Global Jihadis -- Wall Street JournalLashkar-e-Taiba could soon be the world's most dangerous terror group. Sumit Ganguly reviews "Storming the World Stage."
Over a decade ago, I was researching a book on the then-ongoing insurgency in India-controlled Kashmir when a senior official from New Delhi told me that a new terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was wreaking havoc in that state. I tried to get as much information about this new group as he was willing to divulge. I didn't learn much.
In the last decade, the world—especially India—has learned a lot about LeT and how deadly it is. The group came to the fore when, along with another terrorist outfit, it carried out a daring attack on India's parliament in December 2001. Since then, it has perpetrated enough terrorist violence across India to convince the country's hardened security forces to see it as one of their chief adversaries.
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My Comment: Another exposure of Pakistan's ISI involvement and support of terror groups. As for the book's author (Stephen Tankel), I suspect that he is now an unwanted person in Pakistan.