Pakistani honor guards perform Thursday at the spot of Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan. The attack killed seven people and injured eight. (K.M.Chaudary/AP) From Christian Science Monitor:
Media reports suggest that the Pakistani investigation has centered on the same group accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks.
LAHORE – Media reports in Pakistan are suggesting the involvement of banned Islamic group Lashkar-e-Taiba in Tuesday’s attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team – the same group suspected of having a hand in last November’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai – while Pakistan’s interior minister said Friday an official probe did not find evidence of “religious elements” in the attack.
Dawn, an English-language daily in Pakistan, reports that preliminary investigations suggest that “a group of headstrong Lashkar activists, who went underground and remained in hiding in Rawalpindi after the crackdown on Lashkar and Jamaatud Dawa in December, had acted on their own and carried out the attack.”
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My Comment: Besides gathering up the usual suspects, the Police and Intelligence Services in Pakistan are not 100% sure on who planned, organized, and carried out this attack.
This is an intelligence and police failure on a massive scale.
One can now only expect more attacks and mayhem from these unknown groups.
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