Pakistan's Fingerprints To India Bombing

[Kathianne]

Not good:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/world/asia/08terror.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss


December 8, 2008
Pakistan’s Spies Aided Group Tied to Mumbai Siege

By ERIC SCHMITT, MARK MAZZETTI and JANE PERLEZ
This article was reported by Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti and Jane Perlez and written by Mr. Schmitt.

WASHINGTON — Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group suspected of conducting the Mumbai attacks, has quietly gained strength in recent years with the help of Pakistan’s main spy service, assistance that has allowed the group to train and raise money while other militants have been under siege, American intelligence and counterterrorism officials say.

American officials say there is no hard evidence to link the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, to the Mumbai attacks. But the ISI has shared intelligence with Lashkar and provided protection for it, the officials said, and investigators are focusing on one Lashkar leader they believe is a main liaison with the spy service and a mastermind of the attacks....

Which may be the reason for this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081208/ts_nm/us_india_mumbai_arrests


Pakistan arrests suspected Mumbai planner: source

By Abu Arkam Naqash
1 hr 40 mins ago
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – One of the suspected planners of last month's attack by gunmen on Mumbai was arrested by Pakistani security forces in a raid on a militant camp, an official with a charity linked to the militant group said on Monday.

The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was taken into custody following Sunday's raid on a camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters outside Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir.

"Yes, Lakhvi is among four or five people arrested in a raid yesterday," said the official, whose JuD charity is regarded as front for the feared militant group.

Pakistani intelligence officers said six men have been arrested, but gave no names, and there has been no official confirmation of the raid....

[Kathianne]

Suddenly it seems the problems with Pakistan are front page everywhere:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/08/pakistan.violence.nato/index.html


Pakistan militants torch more NATO vehicles

Story Highlights
Second time in two days NATO vehicles attacked in Peshawar
Depot located just outside Pakistani city, close to Afghan border
Terminal in city used to move supplies to landlocked Afghanistan
Militants destroyed 145 vehicles, trailers and containers the day before
(CNN) -- Militants in Pakistan torched 50 new NATO trucks early Monday morning in Peshawar, the latest in a series of recent attacks on the alliance's supply lines into Afghanistan, Muhammad Iftikhar, deputy superintendent of Peshawar police, told CNN.

It was the second time in two days NATO vehicles had been attacked in Peshawar, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The city is a key staging post for deliveries of food, fuel and supplies to the alliance's forces in Afghanistan.

MIlitants destroyed 145 vehicles, trailers and containers in Sunday's attack, including two armored personnel carriers and a fire truck, Fazal Muhammad of Peshawar police told CNN.

A security guard was killed and two employees were wounded in the attack on the Faisalal terminal just outside Peshawar, according to officials....

Suddenly a problem? I don't think so, but suddenly it's being reported frequently.