| Ja, sure, and I'm a 6'3" ski instructor named Sven with bushy blond hair. |
India and the United States regard his charity as a front for a terrorist group blamed for bombs that killed more than 180 people in Mumbai on July 11.  But freed on Wednesday from house arrest in Pakistan, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed says that he is the victim of an Indian smear campaign.
| Seems like we've read a thing or two that he's written. It didn't read like a charity. |
Saeed heads the charity organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which was at the forefront of relief work after last year’s earthquake in Pakistan that killed 73,000 people. Yet in April Washington added the group to its list of terrorist organisations. “We’re all about relief and social work. Every child in Pakistan knows about our activities,” Saeed told Reuters, following his two-month incarceration by Pakistan authorities. “We’re spending huge amounts on such projects, and terrorists can’t do this,” he said.
Saeed is better known as the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a banned jihadi group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. But Saeed says he is a charity worker and that the rest is Indian propaganda - although members of the intelligence community, including Pakistanis, still regard him as the moving spirit behind LeT.
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