Lashkar-e-Taiba , a Kashmiri militant group which is thought to be behind 2008 Mumbai attacks , is also known to have strong ties to senior al-Qaeda leaders living in Pakistan . In Late 2002 , top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was arrested while being sheltered by Lashkar-e-Taiba in a safe house in Faisalabad . The FBI believes that al-Qaeda and Lashkar have been ' intertwined ' for a long time while the CIA has said that al-Qaeda funds Lashkar-e-Taiba . Jean-Louis Bruguière told Reuters in 2009 that " Lashkar-e-Taiba is no longer a Pakistani movement with only a Kashmir political or military agenda . Lashkar-e-Taiba is a member of al-Qaeda . " In a video released in 2008 , American-born senior al-Qaeda operative Adam Yahiye Gadahn stated that " victory in Kashmir has been delayed for years ; it is the liberation of the jihad there from this interference which , Allah willing , will be the first step towards victory over the Hindu occupiers of that Islam land . " In September 2009 , a US drone strike reportedly killed Ilyas Kashmiri who was the chief of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami , a Kashmiri militant group associated with al-Qaeda . Kashmiri was described by Bruce Riedel as a ' prominent ' al-Qaeda member while others have described him as head of military operations for al-Qaeda . Kashmiri was also charged by the US in a plot against Jyllands-Posten , the Danish newspaper which was at the center of Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy . US officials also believe that Kashmiri was involved in the Camp Chapman attack against the CIA . In January 2010 , Indian authorities notified Britain of an al-Qaeda plot to hijack an Indian airlines or Air India plane and crash it into a British city . This information was uncovered from interrogation of Amjad Khwaja , an operative of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami , who had been arrested in India
Camp Chapman attack
Camp Chapman attack
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