SOUTH ASIAN TERRORIST WEB SITES:
SOUTH ASIAN TERRORIST WEB SITES: While the media is focused on the Mideast road map for peace — not that there’s anything wrong with that!! — attention has drifted from other flash points — like South Asia. Alyssa Ayres writes in the Wall Street Journal that although recent trends are positive, Pakistani support for — ...
SOUTH ASIAN TERRORIST WEB SITES: While the media is focused on the Mideast road map for peace -- not that there's anything wrong with that!! -- attention has drifted from other flash points -- like South Asia. Alyssa Ayres writes in the Wall Street Journal that although recent trends are positive, Pakistani support for -- or benign neglect of -- terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba will remain a sticking point:
SOUTH ASIAN TERRORIST WEB SITES: While the media is focused on the Mideast road map for peace — not that there’s anything wrong with that!! — attention has drifted from other flash points — like South Asia. Alyssa Ayres writes in the Wall Street Journal that although recent trends are positive, Pakistani support for — or benign neglect of — terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba will remain a sticking point:
Theoretically, the Lashkar does not exist: Pakistan’s President Musharraf banned it in January last year and jailed its founder for six months. It enjoys the distinction of a place on the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations roster, which puts it in the company of al Qaeda, the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and Hamas. But for a banned militia, one whose assets should have been frozen 16 months ago, their media production continues apace. Two weeks ago they gave their family of Web sites a muscular relaunch, suggesting a new infusion of cash or smarts….. For a banned militia to be printing up magazines in hard copy and virtual form, material obviously designed to recruit militants for a “final journey” into Kashmir, right under the nose of the Pakistani authorities, can only mean one of two things. Someone either can’t, or won’t, connect the dots….. [P]eace will remain a fantasy as long as spoilers like the Lashkar-e-Taiba receive free rein to propagate their vision and recruit new soldiers to the task.
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Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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