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| U.S. Names Two Lashkar-e-Taiba Leaders 'Global Terrorists' |
| 2014-06-26 |
| [AnNahar] The United States on Wednesday designated the finance chief and a senior public relations official of Pakistain-based krazed killer group Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... as "global terrorists," placing tight economic sanctions on the two. The U.S. Treasury said Nazir Ahmad Chaudhry, one of the two hit with sanctions, has been a big shot and strategist for LeT since the early 2000s, while the second, Muhammad Hussein Gill, is an LeT founder and its chief financial officer. Both were labeled "specially designated global terrorists," freezing any assets they might have in U.S. jurisdiction and banning Americans from any transactions with the two. "We will continue to target LeT's financial foundation to disrupt and impede its violent activities," said David Cohen, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. LeT, already officially named a "foreign terrorist organization" by the U.S. government, has carried out attacks on India and Indian forces in the Indian Kashmire region since the early 1990s. It was blamed for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that left 166 people dead. The group has denied responsibility Nope. Nope. Wudn't us. . More recently, LeT was blamed for an attack last month on an Indian diplomatic mission in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Afghanistan that left two coppers maimed. But the group subsequently denied involvement in that attack. |
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