Why Mumbai Attacks May Not Have Had Establishment's Blessing

As anyone who has followed recent news can tell, LeT and Pakistan's non-al-Qaeda outfits have been getting a fair amount of press in the US lately. That is a good thing which suggests that the heat is on though for how long is not clear. 

Reuel Marc Gercht's column is the latest. We have heard why LeT's Mumbai operation must have been endorsed and aided by the ISI. This author makes the counterargument based on the same evidence:

If the Lashkar still had real friends in the Pakistani military and in the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency--the most Islamist-friendly Muslim intelligence service in the world--its attacks in Mumbai would have been more murderous. So these holy warriors, widely feared in Kashmir and Pakistan for their savagery and their disciplined organization, are not yet the missing link for the jihadists who aspire to kill "the enemies of God" in huge numbers.