Posted on 05/02/2010 9:09:28 AM PDT by kristinn
A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City.
Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes "fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA." Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.
The tape has yet to be verified, but US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe it is legitimate. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel on YouTube was created on April 30. Officials believe it was created to announce the Times Square attack, and Qari Hussain’s statement was pre-recorded.
"This attack is a revenge for the great & valuable martyred leaders of mujahideen," Qari Hussain said. He listed Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban who was killed in a Predator strike in August 2009, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the former leader of al Qaeda Islamic State of Iraq who was killed by Iraqi forces in mid-April. And although he was not mentioned, an image of Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was also displayed in the images accompanying the audiotape.
Qari Hussain also said the failed attack was "revenge for the Global American interference & terrorism in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan for Lal Masjid operation," a reference to the July 2008 Pakistani military assault on Islamists holed up in the Red Mosque in Islamabad, as well as Predator strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and the arrest and detention of Pakistani scientist Aifa Siddique.
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Why would you take credit for a screw up?
Terrorists don’t fear Obama the way they learned to be fearful of George W. Bush. How many attacks have there been on our soil since he took office?
See my #40. Might be your answer.
Even getting the bomb in place and smoking is a partial vic. It’s terror inducing, and makes Americans change their habits even more. What now, checkpoints leading into Times Square?
Video has been removed. Did anyone download it?
Maybe. Or maybe it was cron-scripted to be released at a certain time. That’s what they would do if they had drones on their heels.
Let me make this crystal clear: THIS IS OBAMA’S FAULT!!!
Just a side note: WABC radio here in NY City did not even MENTION the bombing on the 1:00 news . Not a word , they even talked about a fight in a Walmarts in Mass. but not a word on a bomb planted right in the heart of the city on the most crowded night of the week. Anyone else see this as “strange”?
Fox just said a bomb was found inside a microwave in Pittsburgh at a Marathon race.
Pittsburgh Marathon course altered by bomb scare
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15002915
but on the other hand - it can't be them - it's already been floated that it was ‘right wing extremists’
Please stop the world - I want to get off for a bit
I didn’t grab it. According to a Google search, the video was posted eleven hours ago—about 2 a.m. EDT.
MSNBC has some KID on who is their terrorism EXPERT saying it’s too crude to be foreign terrorist and implying home grown right wing folks. what total propaganda.
the tape was made ahead of time - they didn't know it would 'fail'
Also, has it really 'failed"?
The propaganda faction is still there - basically - 'see what we can do? Right under your noses - more to come.'
Read the article, the message was pre-recorded. They expected the bomb to work. It was posted on the 30th, the bomb was triggered(with no joy)on the 1st. Stands to reason they are the ones who set it up. This in spite of the BS on MSNBC about right wingers being responsible because muslims made good bombs.
They are going to have to eat those words now, and I bet Napolitano changes her tune about it "might be terrorism", now that they can't blame white tea partiers for it.
Check this out.It was near the finish line.
“Runners in the Pittsburgh Marathon were detoured as they approached the finish due to a suspected pipe bomb near a bus station near the end of the course.”
http://kdka.com/national/pipe.bomb.Pittsburgh.2.1669641.html
Read the article. The message was pre-recorded. They expected the bomb to work, either that or it was a warning, which still strikes fear into many people’s hearts. IMO it was a warning due to the fact they(the perps)left the hazard lights on and the motor running which, of course, drew attention to the vehicle even before it caught on fire.
Aspirin factories alert - INCOMING!
That was my initial reaction also - was the whole thing meant to be discovered - but everyone shook up as they have sent a signal they can do it - anytime... they are big on propaganda
Why take "credit" for something that failed? This makes no sense.
Shoulda scrolled through the thread before I posted!
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