Lashkar-e-Taiba
Dec 20 2008, Rahul Bhandari

More than a decade before last month’s attacks in Mumbai, fighters from Lashkar-e-Taiba showed up here, turning this pine-ringed village in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir into a lair that became known as “the cat’s attic.”

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