LT denies link to Mumbai terrorism
WASHINGTON: The banned Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT) denied its involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks even as US media and intelligence speculated about the group’s possible role in the attacks that left over 200 people, including several foreigners, dead in India’s financial capital, Mumbai.
The New York Times reported on its website there was mounting evidence implicating the Kashmir-based LT.
Citing unnamed intelligence and counterterrorism officials, the newspaper said US intelligence agencies had not so far reached any firm conclusions about the perpetrators of the attacks. However, they said evidence gathered in the past two days pointed to LT or possibly another group based in Kashmir, the Jaish-e-Muhammad, according to the report.
A US counterterrorism official told AFP the LT might have been responsible.
“Some of the things that have been learnt thus far do point in the direction of a Kashmiri connection,” the counter-terrorism official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. “But it’s still too early for definitive conclusions. That does go beyond the fact that some of the features of the attacks are consistent with the sorts of things that we have seen from Kashmiri groups in the past,” the official said. afp
