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India Issues Nationwide Terror Alert for New Year Plot

NEW DELHI -- India increased security in major cities across the country today after receiving information that a Pakistan-based militant group was planning an attack over New Year's weekend. More police were deployed to city streets, including in India's financial capital, Mumbai, which was attacked in 2008. Airports and...

Saudis Are World's Biggest Terrorist Financiers, Says Leaked Cable

(Dec. 6) -- Saudi Arabia is the world's largest fundraising source for radical Islamist groups operating in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. "More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT...

Rogue DEA Informant Lived in 2 Worlds

(Nov. 8) -- In the beginning, it seems, even David Headley wasn't sure where his sympathies lay. The rogue American informant, who pleaded guilty to plotting the deadly 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, and is awaiting sentencing, has always lived between two worlds, working as an informant for the Drug Enforcement...

Report: Pakistani Spies Aided Mumbai Attacks

(Oct. 19) -- Pakistan's leading spy agency was deeply involved in the planning of the November 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, according to a leaked Indian government document that details the interrogation of a U.S. citizen convicted in connection with the bloodbath. The information was gleaned from...

Fears Over Disease Mount in Flood-Ravaged Pakistan

(Aug. 2) -- The worst flooding in northwest Pakistan for 80 years is now believed to have killed at least 1,220 people, many dying as their villages were swept away, and left more than 1 million people homeless and in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. "We have recorded 1,227 dead so far and this will increase"...

Background on Lashkar e Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba ( ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure) – also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar Taiba or LeT – is one of the largest and most active militant Islamist terrorist organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.

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