Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. The global Islamist jihadist organization known as Lashkar-e Tayyiba is a phenomenally vicious group with a recent history of carrying out numerous sectarian atrocities. Now, this group is starting to establish itself within the United States.
Considering just some of the highlights from the article quoted below, it is clear by their activities within the U.S. and the politically correct policies of our federal gov't that the Lashkar-e Tayyiba threat to the U.S. is NOT being taken seriously enough? You can bet we will be hearing more about this group - one way or the other.
"The recent confession by David Headley, a Chicago Pakistani-American, that he scouted targets for Lashkar-e Tayyiba's deadly attacks in Mumbai, India provides just the latest evidence that the Pakistan-based terrorist group has expanded into a worldwide threat -- and increasingly is recruiting U.S. residents as participants in its murderous campaign.""[...] A new analysis of Lashkar's history prepared by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) documents the group's evolution since its 1989 founding as a proxy of the Pakistani government's conflict with India, providing recruits to push the Islamic insurgency in Indian Kashmir. Read the full report here. [...] The report discusses increased cooperative efforts by Lashkar with al Qaida and other terrorist groups -- the Afghan Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban (the Pakistani Taliban), Harakat-ul-Jihadi-Islami and Jaish-e-Muhammad.""[...] Sentencing Al-Timimi to life in prison the following year, Judge Leonie Brinkema stressed the threat posed by Lashkar and its U.S.-based recruits. "I don't think that any well-read person can doubt the truth that terrorist camps are an essential part of the new terrorism that is perpetrated in the world today…People of good will need to do whatever they can to stop that," she declared.""In 2005, agents of the FBI Terrorism Task Force uncovered evidence that another group of American homegrown would-be jihadists had sought out Lashkar for training in terrorism. Working largely through a confidential informant, the Bureau developed information that led to the indictment and conviction of four conspirators on charges of providing material support to Lashkar and related terrorism offenses. They received prison sentences ranging from 13 to just under 30 years.""Yet a third plot involving domestic terrorists setting up a Lashkar training connection in the post-9-11 period was discovered, this one based in northwestern Georgia.""[...] A comment by Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, in an article published in the May 6, 2010 issue of TIME magazine puts the situation in sharp focus. The Administration's best approach, Riedel said, is to launch a "global takedown" of Pakistani jihad cells outside Pakistan, especially in Britain, the U.S. and the Middle East.""These external bases are the most threatening to us, much more than their operations in Pakistan," he warned."
