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LeT has carried out numerous attacks against professional security forces—primarily the Indian Army and police. This chapter describes the conditions under which LeT carries out terrorist attacks against professional security forces. The chapter discusses several TP-rules about these types of terror attacks that were derived automatically from the LeT data set used in this book.
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(Tankel 2011, pp. 60–61) describes ISI support for LeT, and how it made LeT combat proficient. On p. 64, Tankel cites contacts who state that the ISI helped establish JeM as a counter-balance to LeT. On p. 99, he discusses how the ISI acted to coordinate LeT and the Haqqani network.
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See also (Abou Zahab 2007) who did her research using accounts of martyrdom in LeT publications.
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Subrahmanian, V.S., Mannes, A., Sliva, A., Shakarian, J., Dickerson, J.P. (2013). Attacks Against Professional Security Forces. In: Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4769-6_6
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