Pakistan’s Taliban vows attacks on west
Posted Jun 27, 2011 03:17:41 PM.
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Pakistan’s Taliban, a close, but weaker, ally of al qaeda, has threatened to carry out a series of attacks against American, British and French targets to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden.
The chilling threat indicated they would move against ten targets in Britian, France and the U.S.
In a videotape that aired this weekend on al Aribiya, the deputy Pakistani Taliban leader said “soon you will see attacks against America and NATO countries.
The Taliban movement of Pakistan is blamed for many of the suicide bombings across that country but it has not demonstrated an ability to stage sophisticated attacks in the west.
Their one apparent bid to inflict carnage in the United States failed. The group claimed responsibility for the botched car bomb attack in New York’s Times Square last year.
A Taliban militant and his wife carried out a weekend shooting and suicide bombing on a police station that killed 12 policemen.
The United States has been leaning hard on Pakistan to crack down on militancy since it was discovered that bin Laden may have been living in the country for years.
