The truth may lie somewhere in between. But India’s suspicions cannot be dismissed lightly, for they are not born out of paranoia. New Delhi realised within hours of its commencement that this terrorist attack on Mumbai was very different from its predecessors. Initially, analysts surmised that it was a brainchild of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and its new friends in Al Qaeda, notably the Jemaah-al-Islamiyya of Indonesia. Al Qaeda’s stamp was visible in the decision to hit high-profile targets such as the two five-star hotels and to target American, Israeli and British nationals. It was difficult to believe that the ISI would have stood by and allowed, much less sponsored, an attack that was guaranteed to bring Pakistan’s most important benefactor, the US, down on its head.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh therefore gave Pakistan the benefit of the doubt and blamed elements within the territory of Pakistan. But as Kasav began to talk, and as it sifted the evidence obtained from the fishing trawler, MV Kuber, and the Taj and the Oberoi hotels in Mumbai, it began to suspect that the Lashkar had been actively helped by the ISI. The preparation was so elaborate, involved so many trainees, and such extended and sophisticated training in so many locations, that Delhi found it harder and harder to believe that the ISI had never got even a whiff of what the LeT was up to.
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