05 April 2012

Editorial: $10 m Bounty on Mumbai “Planner”

By Rajeev Sharma

The United States has announced a $10 million reward for Pakistan-based Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who is alleged by India to have conceived and choreographed the November, 2008 terrorist strikes in Mumbai that claimed the lives of 164 people and injured hundreds more.

Saeed is head of Jamaat-ud-Dawa and founder of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, but is believed by some to have abandoned the leadership of the latter organization after being detained following an attack on the Indian parliament that took place in December 2001. However, the United Nations has described Jamaat-ud-Dawa as simply a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
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