CTEC Director Jason Blazakis Quoted in Recent Pro Publica Article
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Jason Blazakis, CTEC’s Director, was quoted in a recent Pro Publica article regarding the ten-year anniversary of LeT’s terror attack in Mumbai, India.
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He was quoted as saying, “The administration said they were going to get tougher, but it didn’t translate into action,” on the Mumbai case, said Jason Blazakis, who recently stepped down as director of the State Department’s office on counterterrorism finance and designations. “What are you doing as a government to bring these people to justice? Not a whole heck of a lot — and that’s unfortunate.”
He also said:
“I absolutely see Lashkar as a current threat,” said Blazakis, now a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California. “It has a state patron. It has sanctuary. It has a freedom to operate. What would happen if the group carried out another Mumbai? I shudder to think about India’s response. It could steamroll into a full war between India and Pakistan.”