[PDF] Protecting The Homeland Against Mumbai Style Attacks And The Threat From Lashkar E Taiba eBook

Author : Subcommittee on Transportation Security of the Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2014-01-17
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ISBN : 9781494975708

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Today, we are talking about the Pakistani-based jihadi group known for its 2008 terror attack in Mumbai, Lashkar-e-Taiba or LeT. We will examine their capability and intent to attack our homeland and what measures, for instance, the FDNY, the New York City Fire Department, is taking, the other first responders are taking to prepare for attacks which use fire as a weapon. LeT is designated and sanctioned by our Departments of State and Treasury as a terror organization. LeT's networks span across South Asia and the Persian Gulf into Europe, especially Britain, as well as Canada and New Zealand. LeT is also a terror proxy of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, its ISI, which provides LeT with a safe haven and funding to train and prepare for terrorist attacks. LeT maintains ties with al-Qaeda. They fight together against us in the Afghan provinces of Ghazni, Kunar, and Nuristan. LeT terrorists earlier fought our forces in Iraq. Given that LeT has killed American civilians in India, fights U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and is operationally active in this country, we must consider the possibility of a future LeT strike in the homeland.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2017-12-20
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ISBN : 9781981785162

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Protecting the homeland against Mumbai-style attacks and the threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba : hearing before the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, June 12, 2013.

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2017-10
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ISBN : 9781977823700

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Protecting the homeland against Mumbai-style attacks and the threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba : hearing before the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, June 12, 2013.

Author : U. S. Military
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2017-10-27
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ISBN : 9781973161141

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This unique study outlines the Mumbai attacks, examines a homeland defense simulation mandated by the National Security Council (NSC) to amplify these gaps, and recounts recent success stories demonstrating what departments and agencies are doing to remedy these two deficiencies.American homeland defenders are quick to criticize the Government of India's (GoI) counterterrorism techniques, or lack thereof, in response to the attacks in Mumbai last November. But there are two major gaps in the areas of 1) Federal authority and 2) State and Local authority if the "whole of U.S. Government" was required to counter a "Mumbai-style" assault in the United States. On November 26, 2008, ten well-trained Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT or "Army of the Pure") militants attacked seven targets and successfully detonated two IEDs in Mumbai, India. More than sixty hours later, when the GoI neutralized the last terrorist, 166 people, including 6 Americans, had been killed, and 308 had been injured. Last year alone, there were reports of three "Mumbai-style" attacks: the February assault on the Kabul, Afghanistan government buildings, the March attack on the Sri Lankan Cricket Team, and the attack on the Manawan Police Academy, both in Lahore, Pakistan.How could such a devastating attack occur in a world-renowned city like Mumbai, the "Entertainment Epicenter" of India? Excerpts from a popular tour guide describe Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, like this: "Measure out: one part Hollywood; six parts traffic; a bunch of rich power-moguls; stir in half a dozen colonial relics...add a smattering of swish bars and restaurants...equal parts of mayhem and order; as many bazaars as you have lying around. throw it all in a blender on high. and presto: Mumbai." Mumbai is also a port-city, with a major financial center. These characteristics can be applied to many burgeoning metropolises in the United States. But considering that Mumbai is also home to vital Indian nuclear establishments and the Western Naval Command, one can see the potential for worldwide consequences on a much greater strategic scale, regardless of the attacked city or country.

Author : ristine Christine Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2023-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198884028

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Since its inception in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT), also known as the Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD), has arguably been the most threatening and disruptive terrorist organization in South Asia and beyond. While there is considerable scholarship on its history and operations, few scholars have exploited the organization's vast publications. This volume is the first scholarly effort to curate a sample of LeT's Urdu-language publications and then translate them into English for the scholarly community studying this group and related organizations. While the original texts were written and published by Dar al Andalus, which exclusively publishes LeT's books, pamphlets, posters, speeches, and other materials with the explicit intention of diffusing the group's ideology, raising funds, and cultivating volunteers for the organization, the authors hope that by rendering the group's materials more accessible, this book can contribute to the myriad efforts to combat such groups and the violence they perpetrate.

Author : Stephen Tankel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190238038

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Lashkar-e-Taiba is among the most powerful militants groups in South Asia and increasingly viewed as a global terrorist threat on par with al-Qaeda. Considered Pakistan's most powerful proxy against India, the group gained public prominence after its deadly ten-person suicide assault on Mumbai in November 2008. By the time the last Lashkar terrorist was dead after nearly 60 hours, it appeared the world was facing a new menace. Boasting transnational networks stretching across several continents, there has been serious debate since 9/11 of whether Lashkar is an al-Qaeda affiliate. The deliberate targeting of Westerners and Jews during the Mumbai attacks raised questions about whether Lashkar was moving deeper into al-Qaeda's orbit and perhaps on a trajectory to displace Osama bin Laden's network as the next major global jihadi threat. Lashkar's expansion has serious security implications for India, Pakistan, Europe and the United States and its activities threaten to damage US-Pakistan relations. Despite growing calls for action, Pakistan is yet to take any serious steps toward dismantling Lashkar for fear of drawing it further into the insurgency raging there and because of its continued utility against India. More than a militant outfit, Lashkar also controls a vast infrastructure that delivers necessary social services to the Pakistani populace, making it all the more difficult to dismantle. Storming the World Stage traces the evolution of Lashkar-e-Taiba over more than two decades to illustrate how the group grew so powerful and to assess the threat it poses to India, the West and to Pakistan itself. The first English-language book ever written about Lashkar, it draws on in-depth field research, including interviews with senior Lashkar leaders, rank-and-file members, and officials of the Pakistani security services--some of who have helped nurture the group over the years.