Islamic Terrorists Ultimately Demolish Danish Embassy in Islamabad?

Islamic Extremists in Pakistan ultimately succeed in hitting Danish Embassy today on June2, 2008.According to local News TV Channel's' reports at least 9 people were killed and 30 injured in the car-bomb blast in front of Danish Embassy this noon. According to initial estimates, more that 30 kg of highly dangerous explosive was used in this attack. Target was the Danish Embassy but the Project Office of UNDP, situated in front of the Danish Embassy was almost completely demolished while Indian Embassy's Guest House was also damaged. Almost all vehicles parked in Danish Embassy and UNDP office were destroyed. Anjum Masood, a field operations manager for the UN-funded group, Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment, said dozens of its 100 employees were wounded, mostly by flying glass. His own left hand was bandaged.

This deadly Car-bomb blast follows a bombing in March at a restaurant in Islamabad that killed a Turkish aid worker and wounded at least 12 others including four FBI personnel.

Danish Embassy in Islamabad is situated in a residential Sector F 6/2, a few kilometers away from the "diplomatic Enclave" where offices of most of the foreign missions and Embassies are situated.Norwegian Government after this attack on Danish Embassy has closed its Embassy in Pakistan which was operating in the same residential locality of Islamabad.

After receiving threats from Islamic Militant Groups the Danish Embassy In Islamabad had limited its activities to the least extant. Islamic Militant Groups and almost all the right wing political groups had been demanding of the Government of Pakistan to close Danish Embassy in Islamabad. In April, Denmark briefly evacuated staff from its embassies in Algeria and Afghanistan because of terror threats related to the Muhammad drawings. Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller then suggested Danish embassies in other locations also could be forced to relocate their staff following a warning in March by al-Qa'ida leader Osama bin Laden.

According to initial reports it was apparent that there was no enough security provided to the Danish Embassy since the car loaded with huge explosive could reach in front of the Embassy without any hindrance. Though the local Administration and security personal claim that every vehical moving in to the area where Danish Embassy was situated was checked by the Local security staff but today's attack denies this claim.

Who is Responsible for this attack?
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. But i fear this act of terrorism was conducted by banned Lashkar-e-Tayba or some other Islamic Militant Groups which may not directly related to the Al-Qaida.

Formed in 1990 in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, the Lashkar-e-Toiba (Now known as Jama’at-ud-Da’awa) is based in Muridke near Lahore in Pakistan and is headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. Its first presence in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was recorded in 1993 when 12 Pakistani and Afghan mercenaries infiltrated across the Line of Control (LoC) in tandem with the Islami Inquilabi Mahaz, a terrorist outfit then active in the Poonch district of J&K.
Proscription

The LeT is outlawed in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
It was included in the Terrorist Exclusion List by the US Government on December 5, 2001. The US administration designated the Lashkar-e-Toiba as a FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) on December 26, 2001. It is also a banned organization in Britain since March 30, 2001.

The military regime of Gen. Pervez Musharraf banned the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan on January 12, 2002.Since then it has been operating in Pakistan with a new name" Jamat-al-Dawath". The groups activities in Pakistan include mass mobilisation on Jihad against Non Muslims. Its focus has been on Jihad in Indian occupied Kashmir but in a recent report The US authorities have blamed it for sending militants in Iraq too.The USA Government just a few days earlier had announced to seize accounts of the three top leaders and a financier of Lashkar-e-Tayba on the charges of involvement in terrorism.

During recent months this group merged as the biggest campaigner against Denmark for her firm stance to protect the freedom of expression in context of the controversial sketches of Mohammad, the founder of Islam. According to the official weekly newspaper of Jamat-al-Dawath,(April11-17) the group had conducted 10,697 public meetings in 26 districts of Pakistan to project the issue of "Respect of the Prophet(Mohammad)". In Lahore only, the capital city of Punjab Province, the group organized 1346 public meetings,72 huge hording boards and 4500+ street walls in the city was used to proliferate hatred against those who don't respect the founder of Islam. " We will sacrifice our lives to protect the Honor of Prophet(Mohammad)" was the slogan painted on the hording boards and the walls while one hundred and fifty thousand stickers were also pasted all around in the city by this group bearing the same slogan. Same activity was carried out by the activists of this group in other cities of Punjab and other parts of Pakistan as well.

The Group's leader Hafiz Saeed, responding to the recent move by the US government said that his group had no accounts in America so our activities will not afect by such an actions. Though formally banned by the Government of Pakistan in 2002, the leadership of Lashkar-e-Tayba had never faced anu hardships in carrying out its activities including running its training facilities mainly in Punjab and Pakistan's held Kashmir. This is largely believed in Pakistan that this group now called Jamat-al-Dawath is being supported and facilitated by Pakistan Army's Inelegance Agencies for it provides Mujaheddin to fight in Kashmir. This group also supports the Military Establishment by proliferating Islamic Militancy and ideas like Jihad which ultimately give legitimacy to the huge expanses on Military in a poor country.

The reason for suspecting Jamat-Al-Dawath or Lashkar-e-Tayba is quite understandable. By its recent declaration regarding LeT, The US government sent a message to the Military Establishment of Pakistan that their allies' activities in Pakistan will now be checked in a different manner. Lose security of the Danish Embassy which was the most Hard Target of the Islamic Terrorists in Pakistan also provides room for suspicions that the authorities responsible for provision of security could also be involved in this heinous act of terrorism. In the most discussed assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the leader of Pakistan Peoples Party, security flaw of the same same nature provided the terrorists a vital opportunity to finish BB who was out to deprive the Military of power in Islamabad. BB had sent a message to one of her friends abroad on the same day when she was assassinated that if she was killed, Musharraf the President of State will be responsible for that.