Washington, July 10
With Al-Qaida on the backfoot, Hafeez Saeed founded LeT has emerged as the world’s most dangerous terror group and has connections with the Pakistan’s ISI and army, a former senior CIA officer has said.

The November 2008 attack by 10 LeT terrorists on multiple targets in Mumbai was the most significant and innovative terrorist attack since 9/11, Bruce Riedel, Senior Fellow Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution, a Washington based think tank, wrote in The Daily Beast.

He, however, noted that more than three years after the attack, LeT has paid no serious price.

“It (Mumbai attacks) marked the maturation of LeT from a Punjabi-based Pakistani terror group targeting India exclusively to a member of the global Islamic jihad targeting the enemies of Al-Qaida: the Crusader West, Zionist Israel, and Hindu India,” he said.

He also referred to the arrest of LeT terrorist Abu Jundal and noted it was a major breakthrough. He said Saudi role in capturing Jundal is also “significant”. — PTI