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.
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
Coordinating ICBM’s now, once evacuation of our troops is complete operation “Make Glass” will commence.
Nice thought, but you do realize, don’t you that our pResident will not, under any circumstances, authorize release of ANY nuclear weapons?
Well, well, well. Janet & zero pound on BP & AZ, while Rome burns.
it ain’t official till the fat lady sings
So far she is still in the first act and singing the old may song
Something seems not right here—why would the guy be bragging about a failed bomb? If it had detonated and done damage, then I could see it—
“Pakistani Taliban? Are you sure they didnt mean a Pakistan, Kansas Taliban Teaparty activists?!?!” - MSNBC anchor
What a coward.
went to ‘you tube’: don’t like ‘sub-titles-with all the expense, you’d think it could be in English....
They didn't expect it to fail. They expected to be celebrating.
Good point Bob.
Nice thought, but you do realize, don’t you that our pResident will not, under any circumstances, authorize release of ANY nuclear weapons?
Well, I can assure you that neither would Bush authorize the use of any nuclear weapons under this circumstance either...
Just think about it for a minute. We endured 9/11 and President Bush never authorized any nuclear weapons to be used in that response. This is nowhere near even a "blip" compared to 9/11.
It would take something a whole lot more than 9/11 to get nukes to be used... As to what that would be? Perhaps some weapons of mass destruction used on several big U.S. cities at the same time. That would probably qualify.
But, the other problem you would have is how to use nuclear weapons on a widely dispersed terrorist group that occupies many different countries ... and that is a big problem.
Nope, just ONE city, one location.....The Hajj in Mecca....
Something seems not right here—why would the guy be bragging about a failed bomb? If it had detonated and done damage, then I could see it—
Take a close look at this paragraph ... it has the answer ... and also the proof that it was a Taliban device...
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.
Well, you know how the Jihadists (holy profile, Batman!) are. They’ll brag about anything to cover up their *ahem* inadequacies. Jealousy is all they know. “My (insert noun here) is bigger/better/stronger than yours is!!”
That’s what I was thinking.
Nope, just ONE city, one location.....The Hajj in Mecca....
That might be a popular sentiment with some posters on Free Republic -- but -- I can assure you that you will never get either a Republican or a Democrat President to do that.
You can leave that one for your dreams ... :-)
Take any one or all of the GOP candidates for the last election and the prospective ones for the next election, and even President George Bush (and even the prior Bush, and even President Reagan) -- and you'll never come up with one that would even so much as suggest or hint that...
Well, we at least know Obama cries at funerals, is a comedian, and is going to clean up the oil spill.
What does it say about an organization that is so quick to claim credit for colossal screw-ups? "We're the Taliban! OK, so maybe we aren't smart enough to get the bomb to go BOOM, but aren't you even a little bit intimidated?"
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