Full name of the organization The organization I chose is the Lashkar e Tayyiba (LeT) also known as the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD).
Location of operations
Lashkar e Tayyiba is currently operating out of Pakistan, though most of its attacks are based in India. The group has been linked to countries as far as Australia.
Group goals
Although Lashkar e Tayyiba has waged war against the US Israel and their allies, with interests that are in line with those of Al Qaeda Its main goal is to unite Kashmir with Pakistan and restore Pakistan to a “pure Islamic rule.” The group “declared that democracy is anti-ethical to Islamic law.”
Membership (info on leaders, activists and supporters, size of the group)
One of the founders of this group includes Hafiz Muhammed Saeed, who is also the leader of JuD, a charity organization founded after the earthquake in 2008. Some believe that JuD is a front to recruit more extremists. Also included are Zaki-ur-Rehiman Lakvi and Abdul Rehman Makki, who is second in charge but has a $2 million US bounty on his head due to his relationships with Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
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On November 26th, 2008 a largely unknown terrorist group forced their way into the international consciousness after an armed group of 10 terrorist’s implemented a well-planned, coordinated, and complex assault on the civilian populace of Mumbai. Utilizing Ak-47’s, hand grenades, and communication equipment, the terrorist attackers killed 104 people and injured another 308. For three days the Mumbai government struggled to effectively eliminate the perpetrators of the terrorist attack, which finally ended in a gun battle between the last living attacker and an Indian Commando unit. Only one attacker was captured by police, but the size of the attack and all of the terrorist participant’s commitment to terrorizing the Mumbai population even when surrounded and outnumbered highlights the development of Lashkar-E-Taiba (LeT), an organization which has arguably become one of the most powerful global terrorist networks. Over the past 20 years, a combination of religious ideological dogma within the Lashkar-E-Taiba, and a perceived utility within the Pakistani’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), set the conditions which allowed the transnational growth and expansion of Lashkar-E-Taiba. Since its inception, the LeT has become the largest and organized group within Kashmir (Desouza and Tobin 2007, 599). The group’s broad ideological jihadi goals and their global influence make Lashkar-E-Taiba a current threat to the United States, but also the most likely group to conduct a successful large scale significant attack against the United States or Western interests.
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Describe the organization you have chosen. Please include the name and a short description of the organization.
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