"Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan"
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Pakistan's Taliban Towel
Yeah, turns out that is the CIA's Taliban!
"US aims legal case at chief of the Pakistani Taliban; Accuses Mehsud of plotting attack on CIA base" by Spencer S. Hsu and William Branigin, Washington Post | September 2, 2010
The CIA's newspaper.
WASHINGTON — The US government designated the Pakistani Taliban a terrorist group yesterday and accused its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, of involvement in a December suicide bombing that killed seven Americans at a forward CIA post in eastern Afghanistan.
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A criminal complaint filed Aug. 20 by the Justice Department in US District Court in Washington, D.C., and unsealed yesterday charges Mehsud with conspiracy to murder US citizens abroad and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely explosives, against them.
Mehsud was thought to have been killed by a US drone strike in January, but he resurfaced in May in videos in which he vowed to attack US cities.
These guys are in and out of the grave more than Elvis.
As the Justice Department announced the charges, the State Department officially designated the Pakistani Taliban a foreign terrorist organization and labeled Mehsud and another Taliban leader, Wali ur-Rehman, as “specially designated global terrorists.’’
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In designating Mehsud and Rehman as global terrorists, the State Department offered a reward of up to $5 million each for information leading to their location.
Mehsud, self-proclaimed emir of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, as the Pakistani Taliban are known, is based in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas. He has sought to expel Pakistani government troops from the region and battle US coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The group also claimed responsibility for the May 1 failed bombing of Times Square in New York.
Pffft!
US authorities said the group has claimed responsibility for, or is alleged to have had a role in, numerous other attacks, including the December 2007 assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and raids on NATO supply lines throughout Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas.
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The Justice Department said the group has coordinated attacks with the Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda....
Al-CIA-Duh again, huh?
