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The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article tracking the movement of the Mumbai terrorists before the attacks of last week. The connection with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani terrorist group traditionally focused on Kashmir, appears fairly clear.
Just two days before hitting the city, the group of 10 terrorists who ravaged India's financial capital communicated with Yusuf Muzammil and four other Lashkar leaders via a satellite phone that they left behind on a fishing trawler they hijacked to get to Mumbai, a senior Mumbai police official told The Wall Street Journal. The entire group also underwent rigorous training in a Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, the official said.Lashkar-e-Taiba is officially illegal in Pakistan, but is suspected of having connections with the Pakistani intelligence services, and is more or less tolerated by Pakistani authorities.
It's fair to say that things could get really ugly. Condoleezza Rice is currently in India, and Admiral Mike Mullen is in Pakistan, both trying to contain the crisis. The Pakistanis are expressing reluctance to turn over twenty terror suspects to India, insisting instead that those suspects will be tried in Pakistan. This is extremely unlikely to mollify India.
--Robert Farley
