US Army photo by Staff Sgt. Horace Murray
Staff Sergeant Horace Murray, 982nd Signal Company (COMCAM), US Army Reserve, from Wilson, North Carolina.
Now Dah is a very small village north-west of Bagram AFB in Afghanistan, and it's virtually invisible on the internet except for photographs by American soldiers, distributing humanitarian assistance or "engaging key leaders," as above, April 20, 2010.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505084/posts?page=6
Pakistani Taliban Claim Credit for Failed NYC Times Square Car Bombing
The Long War Journal ^ | Sunday, May 2, 2010 | Bill Roggio
Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010 12:09:28 PM 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.
Vudeo of claim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxgTdkoM0Bw&feature=player_embedded
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Note this was PRERECORDED. They fully expected it to go off and had already prepared thei statement the day before.