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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113001904.html?hpid=topnews
Pakistan-Based Group Accused in India Carnage Thriving Despite Ban
[Washington Post] Candace Rondeaux and Craig Whitlock - Since 2002 when the government of Pakistan banned Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group has expanded its membership, its operational reach and its influence among radical Islamist networks seeking to spark a revolution in South Asia. Inside Pakistan, Lashkar still operates training camps for militants and runs a large charitable and social-services organization that has been embraced by Pakistani officials. Some of its fighters have traveled to Iraq and East Africa, and it has nurtured a mutually advantageous alliance with al-Qaeda. One of the British suicide bombers in the July 7, 2005, London transit attacks spent time at a Lashkar-affiliated religious school in Pakistan.