Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Michael “Mullen warned in July [25, 2010], on a trip to Islamabad [Pakistan], that LT [terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba] had become ‘a very dangerous organization and a significant regional and global threat.’ He said it was expanding into Afghanistan, adding that ‘the Haqqani [insurgent] group is the most lethal network faced by the US…in Afghanistan.’ ”
– Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Page 156