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James Rupert writes: Pakistani Probe on Mumbai Takes ‘Positive Steps,’ U.S. Says

James Rupert writes: Pakistani Probe on Mumbai Takes ‘Positive Steps,’ U.S. Says

The Bush administration said Pakistan has taken “positive steps” in investigating last month’s assault on Mumbai, as Pakistani troops seized a camp linked to the Islamic militant group accused of the attack. “What’s important here is that those responsible for the attack in Mumbai be brought to justice,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters yesterday in Washington. “What we don’t want to see are future attacks coming, emanating from Pakistani soil,” he added. Pakistan told India it has “initiated investigations” into reports that Pakistanis plotted the Mumbai attack, a Foreign Ministry statement said. Pakistan proposes that “a high-level delegation from Pakistan may visit New Delhi as soon as possible” to arrange a joint investigation, it said. Journalist James Rupert, head of Bloomberg's international bureau in Islamabad, Pakistan began his career abroad as a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching mechanics and welding in Morocco.

James Rupert writes: Pakistani Probe on Mumbai Takes ‘Positive Steps,’ U.S. Says

Pakistani Probe on Mumbai Takes ‘Positive Steps,’ U.S. Says

By James Rupert and Ed Johnson

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration said Pakistan has taken “positive steps” in investigating last month’s assault on Mumbai, as Pakistani troops seized a camp linked to the Islamic militant group accused of the attack.

“What’s important here is that those responsible for the attack in Mumbai be brought to justice,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters yesterday in Washington. “What we don’t want to see are future attacks coming, emanating from Pakistani soil,” he added.

McCormack and White House spokeswoman Dana Perino declined to comment directly on reports that Pakistani security forces arrested Zaki ur-Rahman Lakvhi, a commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba and alleged mastermind of the attack that left 163 people dead.

The raid in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir was Pakistan’s first reported move against Lashkar-e-Taiba since coming under pressure from the U.S. and India to arrest those allegedly responsible for the Nov. 26-29 assault on Mumbai.

Truckloads of soldiers drove through the Kashmiri city of Muzaffarabad late Dec. 7 and sealed off the site, said two residents contacted by telephone who asked not to be identified. An army helicopter hovered above the camp, which belongs to Jamaat ud-Dawa, a religious foundation spun off by Lashkar when the guerrilla group was banned by Pakistan’s government in 2002.

Neither Jamaat ud-Dawa nor the army released information on the raid and their spokespeople didn’t answer telephones yesterday on what was a public holiday in Pakistan.

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Lakvhi, the group’s military commander, and 20 others were detained by security forces, the English-language newspaper Dawn reported, without saying where it got the information.

Forces were carrying out an “intelligence-led operation against banned militant outfits,” the military said in a statement late yesterday that didn’t elaborate.

Pakistan told India it has “initiated investigations” into reports that Pakistanis plotted the Mumbai attack, a Foreign Ministry statement said. Pakistan proposes that “a high-level delegation from Pakistan may visit New Delhi as soon as possible” to arrange a joint investigation, it said.

India named Lashkar-e-Taiba as the organizer of the Mumbai assault after the lone surviving gunman gave “details that prove Lashkar’s involvement,” said Rakesh Maria, the head of the Mumbai police crime department.

The camp raided by troops includes a madrassa, or seminary, a clinic and administrative offices of Jamaat ud-Dawa. Jamaat is headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, who founded the Lashkar guerrilla group in 1990 and remained in charge until days before Pakistan outlawed its activities.

Saeed then established Jamaat ud-Dawa as a religious and charitable foundation that took over Lashkar’s assets. The guerrilla group went underground and continued training fighters for attacks on India, according to Hassan Abbas, a Harvard University researcher and former top Pakistani police official.

“What’s critically important now is that we continue to work together, the Indians, the Pakistanis, the United States and our allies, to prevent follow-on attacks,” Perino told reporters yesterday in Washington.

To contact the reporters on this story: James Rupert in Islamabad at jrupert3@bloomberg.net; Ed Johnson in Sydney at ejohnson28@bloomberg.net.




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