Mumbai Attack: Ten Million Bounty on Masterminds
by Saeed is the founder of the group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Saeed in an archive photo from 2005.
Islamabad – Nearly three and a half years after the terror attack in Mumbai, India with more than 160 dead, has exposed the U.S. government bounty on the presumed mastermind of the attacks. For information, to the arrest of Saeed, one of the founders of the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) lead to a reward is paid ten million dollars (7.5 million euros), as the U.S. Government on Monday (local time) announced. With 25 million euros, the U.S. has only exposed to Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri a higher bounty.
India is the Lashkar-e-Taiba responsible for the attacks 2008th Saeed is a founder of the LeT, which he has renounced claims to be. Meanwhile, he leads the banned charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which is close to the LeT, at least. She is one of the largest aid organizations in Pakistan and especially for their disaster relief after the devastating earthquake in Kashmir known 2005th The United States gradually both the LeT and Jamaat-ud-Dawa as terrorist organizations.
In Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba was banned in 2002 to U.S. pressure. There she was operating, however, just continued under the name Jamaat-ud-Dawa, writes of the “mirror”. Said Saeed occurs according to the magazine regularly on talk shows in Pakistan. He also stuck behind a newly formed alliance of extremist parties in Pakistan, which is called “Defence Council of Pakistan.” Even when the events he step on despite protests from the United States in public, so the magazine.
Released from house arrest in 2009
Saeed was made after the Mumbai attacks under house arrest. He was released in 2009 again. A year later the Supreme Court ruled Pakistan, there was not enough evidence for an arrest. Saeed occurs in Pakistan often publicly, most recently in late March during a demonstration in Islamabad.
India welcomed the bounty for Saeed. India and the U.S. had to “agree that the LeT defeated like all terrorist groups and their hideouts in Pakistan and Afghanistan must be eliminated,” said the Indian foreign ministry.
End of November 2008 had ten terrorists attacked the city center of Mumbai. For three days they had taken hostage and held luxury hotels and other buildings occupied. Among the 166 deaths, 26 were foreigners. Even nine attackers were killed. The only survivor is being made in India the process.
Liked it
