07-19-2005, 07:17 PM
<b>Lashkar-E-Toiba becoming more visible in Bangladesh</b>
The Lashkar-e-Toiba decided to shift terror operations from Jammu and Kashmir to states in the interior in December 2004, and the Ayodhya attack was planned with weapons delivered from Nepal and the terrorists infiltrating from Bangladesh.
The Lashkar-e-Toiba decided to shift terror operations from Jammu and Kashmir to states in the interior in December 2004, and the Ayodhya attack was planned with weapons delivered from Nepal and the terrorists infiltrating from Bangladesh.
Officials said that the government has not officially taken up with Bangladesh the use of its soil by the LeT for the Ayodhya attack and other terror activities in India, since the Lashkar build up in that country is only now becoming visible, and more evidence is being collected to nail the Khalida Zia government as an accomplice in jihadi violence.
Since being first noticed in year 2002, when the LeT organised a rally in Dhaka where the Bangladesh prime ministerâs elder son, Tareq Rahman, was a key speaker, the Lashkar has grown to having twenty-seven offices in Dhaka district, and sixteen of them are near the main university campus.
Officials said that students are routinely asked to join evening prayers in the LeT offices, with promises of financial assistance for higher education in the West, even girls and women are being recruited as cadres, while middle-aged men have been offered jobs in the Middle East.
LeT plans include opening more madrasas, establishing NGOs to spread the teachings of Islam, but officials warn that the Wahabi Lashkar leadership could soon confront the Deobandi Jamaat-e-Islami, the powerful fundamentalist party which is allied with the Khalida Zia government, but there is an uneasy truce between the two sides for the moment.
Original Article:
Lashkar-E-Toiba becoming more visible in Bangladesh
The Lashkar-e-Toiba decided to shift terror operations from Jammu and Kashmir to states in the interior in December 2004, and the Ayodhya attack was planned with weapons delivered from Nepal and the terrorists infiltrating from Bangladesh.
The Lashkar-e-Toiba decided to shift terror operations from Jammu and Kashmir to states in the interior in December 2004, and the Ayodhya attack was planned with weapons delivered from Nepal and the terrorists infiltrating from Bangladesh.
Officials said that the government has not officially taken up with Bangladesh the use of its soil by the LeT for the Ayodhya attack and other terror activities in India, since the Lashkar build up in that country is only now becoming visible, and more evidence is being collected to nail the Khalida Zia government as an accomplice in jihadi violence.
Since being first noticed in year 2002, when the LeT organised a rally in Dhaka where the Bangladesh prime ministerâs elder son, Tareq Rahman, was a key speaker, the Lashkar has grown to having twenty-seven offices in Dhaka district, and sixteen of them are near the main university campus.
Officials said that students are routinely asked to join evening prayers in the LeT offices, with promises of financial assistance for higher education in the West, even girls and women are being recruited as cadres, while middle-aged men have been offered jobs in the Middle East.
LeT plans include opening more madrasas, establishing NGOs to spread the teachings of Islam, but officials warn that the Wahabi Lashkar leadership could soon confront the Deobandi Jamaat-e-Islami, the powerful fundamentalist party which is allied with the Khalida Zia government, but there is an uneasy truce between the two sides for the moment.
Original Article:
Lashkar-E-Toiba becoming more visible in Bangladesh