US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday urged Pakistain to take action against those responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks as Washington offered a new reward of $5 million for helping secure their capture.
The announcement came on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the assault, which left 166 people dead and hundreds injured after Islamist murderous Moslems from Pakistain unleashed a wave of violence across India’s financial capital lasting three days.
"It is an affront to the families of the victims that, after 10 years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have still not been convicted for their involvement," Pompeo said in a statement.
"We call upon all countries, particularly Pakistain, to uphold their UN Security Council obligations to implement sanctions against the hard boyz responsible for this atrocity, including 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...
and its affiliates."
"We stand with the families and friends of the victims, whose loved ones were lost in this act of barbarism, including six American citizens," he added.
Also among those killed were a number of Israelis during an assault and standoff at a Mumbai Chabad house.
The Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Program meanwhile said it was offering up to $5 million "for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of any individual who committed, conspired to commit, or aided or abetted" the execution of the attack.
It is the third such reward offered by the US after the State Department announced bounties of $10 million for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and $2 million for Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, another big shot of the group.
Saeed, who is also designated a terrorist by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
, has denied involvement in terrorism and the Mumbai attacks.
A party linked to the charitable wing of the LeT contested Pakistain’s national elections in July, failing to win any seats but winning more than 435,000 national and regional votes.