Is the LeT still strong even after US pressure on Pakistan tocurb jihadi terrorism on its soil?
Indian experts on jihadi terrorism consider such assumptions (that America is able to influence Pakistan authorities in curbing the anti-India activities of Pakistan-based fundamentalists) nave. They think the LeT is not only surviving but is growing strong. Raman said, “After the Iraq war in 2003, there was a decrease in terrorist activity on Indian soil. After the Mumbai bomb blasts in 2003, there have been no major terrorist attacks… at least outside Jammu and Kashmir. But now, a large number of Saudi recruits have joined the war against the US in Iraq. As a result, Pakistani elements of LeT have returned on the Indianborders.” Raman added that the more important thing to note was that the LeT was now desperate to recruit Indian Muslims in its cadre. Raman said the attack proves that “the so-called India-Pakistan peace process has no impact whatsoever on the motivation of jihadi terrorists.”One must not forget that LeT is an associate of the Osama bin Laden-ledinternational Jihadi
