Call for Transnational Jihad
Rana Banerji
CALL FOR TRANSNATIONAL JIHAD: LASHKAR-E-TAIBA, 1985-2014 by Arif Jamal Kautilya Books, New Delhi, 2015, 432 pp., $100.00
February 2015, volume 39, No 2

This is a chilling account of the origins, ideological moorings, national ambitions and global outreach of one of the world’s most proscribed terrorist groups—the Lashkar–e-Taiba (LeT), designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the United States since December 2001 and also implicated by the United Nations since December, 2008 in its front denomination,Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD).

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