Report - Pakistan Raids LeT Camp In Kashmir

By Cernig

Within hours of Condi Rice telling the world that she felt there was evidence of involvement by "non-state actors" on Pakistani soil in the recent attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai, the Pakistani military has reportedly raided an Let camp near the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.

Local man Nisar Ali told Reuters the operation began in the afternoon in Shawai on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani side of disputed Kashmir region.

"I don't know details as the entire area was sealed off, but I heard two loud blasts in the evening after a military helicopter landed there," Ali said.

An official with the Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity, which is linked to LeT, said security forces had taken over the camp.

Whether the LeT was the controlling group behind the Mumbai attacks or not (and I'm still sceptical about that) there's no doubt that it is a dangerous group, that it is responsible for other attacks inside India including the 2006 Mumbai bombings and that it has always been the creature of Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency. It'll be interesting to see whether this is a token strike, the beginnings of the kind of faux-clampdown that has characterised previous Pakistani offensives against their own terror proxies or something more serious born out of genuine worry that the jig might be up for Pakistan's talking out of both sides of its mouth on terrorism.