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Greater International Pressure Needed to Crack Down on Terror Group LeT: CFT Analyst
printU.N. and U.S. sanctions against the Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of the largest militant Islamist groups operating in the world, have done little to stem its finances, according to Amit Kumar, the fellow for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the Center for National Policy. The terrorist organization, which was responsible for the coordinated November 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 164 people, is still able to fund its operations through donations sent through informal hawala networks, said Kumar. Without greater international pressure and efforts by South Asian nations, the group, known as the LeT, will continue to work with and fund al-Qaida,...
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