LeT gets more tainted; Germany accuses it too for spearheading Mumbai carnage

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the dreaded terrorist outfit hailing from Pakistan, is getting cornered with the passing of each day and now it’s the turn of Germany. Germany, one of the main powers of Europe, in respect of both economy and military, has also accused LeT for being responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. However, it preferred to stay mum on the subject whether other terrorist groups having the backing of Al-Qaeda were also involved. What makes Germany interested in the Mumbai outbreak? It should be remembered three German nationals were slain or bumped off in the Mumbai carnage.

This consideration of Germany was cleared by Joerg Ziercke, President of Germany’s Federal Police in India while he was having a chat with the media persons. Mr. Ziercke appeared quite confident when he said, “Based on whatever investigations we have conducted till now, we feel it is Lashkar that is responsible for these attacks.” Nevertheless he mentioned that he was not aware of the fact whether the LeT had direct connections in the Mumbai attacks.

Mr. Ziercke is on a three-day visit to India and as part of the program met National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan, Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta and Intelligence Bureau Director Rajiv Mathur. It has been learnt that he also had meeting with Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ashwini Kumar and senior officials in the Narcotics Control Bureau.

What were the subjects of discussion? Well, neither of the two sides did come out clearly in this regard but the German official was candid enough to say that the discourses did not revolve around the evidence New Delhi had given to Pakistan. While speaking on this he said, “We generally spoke about the incident, the German perspective and what we have to say about it.”

There are, indeed, some evidences that prove Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is active in the soil of Germany and is expanding its network (resulting certainly from nefarious designs) by leaps and bounds. However, they have not shown any “operative risk” till now and that prevents the pertinent government from adopting stern measures.