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This chapter describes the conditions under which LeT carries out terrorist attacks against three types of targets: public sites, tourist sites, and transportation facilities such as railway stations and airports. The chapter discusses several TP-rules about these types of terror attacks that were derived automatically from the LeT data set used in this book.
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Because the Indian Army administered the Red Fort until 2003, the LeT claimed that its attack the Red Fort was on a military, rather than a civilian target.
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Subrahmanian, V.S., Mannes, A., Sliva, A., Shakarian, J., Dickerson, J.P. (2013). Attacks Against Public Sites, Tourist Sites and Transportation Facilities. In: Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4769-6_5
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