[piasa]

While reporting the Red Fort attack on December 22, 2000, sections of the foreign media described the Lashkar as a Kashmiri militant organisation. It is not. It is a Pakistani organisation based in Pakistan and operating from there. It is a member of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front For Jihad Against the US and Israel. The wrong perceptions abroad about this organisation need to be corrected vigorously. - Source : "Lashkar e Taiba: A Backgrounder," by B.Raman, Sapra India aticle, http://www.subcontinent.com/sapra/terrorism/terrorism20001227a.html. , Date: 27 December 2000

[piasa]

It's one of those organizations which Pakistan knows is a threat to it if allowed to have a free reign in Pakistan (it's declared that Pakistan's government is not "truly islamic"), but one which Pakistan's more aggressive elements considered to be useful enough against India to be worth the risk to themselves.

[Aaron_A]

The wrong perceptions abroad about this organisation need to be corrected vigorously.

Reading the news reports of this arrest, these misperceptions are still out there...most likely on purpose.

[Cindy]

re post no.25...

SAPRA: "Lashkar e Taiba: A Backgrounder" by B. Raman (December 27, 2000)
http://www.subcontinent.com/sapra/terrorism/terrorism20001227a.html