An audiotape was released today by the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed credit for yesterday’s failed Times Square car bombing, the first formal claim of responsibility by any group.
Though the authenticity of the tape has yet to be verified, it purports to be the voice of Qari Hussain Ahmad Mehsud, a top lieutenant of the TTP and cousin of TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud.
Qari Hussain insisted that the attack was retaliation for the recent assassinations of two top members of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and for other killings in the various US wars overseas.
Police said they had no evidence of any Taliban link to the SUV, but were following up another lead in Pennsylvania.
As with Hakimullah, Qari Hussain has been reported killed on numerous occasions, most recently in the January air strike that ostenisbly killed Hakimullah. The strike was Hakimullah’s sixth “confirmed” death and Qari Hussain’s third. Qari Hussain had reemerged in March to deny both his and Hakimullah’s deaths.
If confirmed this would mark the first major attempt at an overseas attack by the TTP, who in December successfully infiltrated and destroyed the top CIA base in Afghanistan in retaliation for the numerous air strikes against their followers in North and South Waziristan. Since then the US has dramatically escalated the number of strikes in those regions, so it is entirely plausible that they have provoked another reaction from the group.
There seems something very Gianfranco Sanguinetti about this affair.
Why would any self-respecting "Terrorist" claim credit for a high profile gin fizzle?
manchurian canidate,self appointed variety,mob rules I guess,dead,not dead,for the dead,sounds,LooKs' like a mob retro-hit,OO,GET DOWN,oo,in front,the innocents "event,war,struggle,,,french for insane
"Everything that power does not forecast, because it has not organised it, therefore becomes a 'plot' against it; on the other hand, artificial terrorism, being organised and directed by the masters of the spectacle, is a real and spontaneous phenomenon that these latter continually feign to fight, for the simple reason that it is easier to defend oneself from a simulated enemy than from a real one…"
Gianfranco Sanguinetti [tr. Prigent/Forsyth fr. M.]
Marketing 101. It shows that they have reach and walk the talk and that, even if this time it didn't work out, in the future it might well do work out. It's publicity which results in kudos, recruits and money.
Hmmm … the smoking SUV.
"The SUV contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, police said. Timers were connected to a 16-ounce can filled with fireworks that were apparently intended to set the gas cans afire, then ignite the three barbecue-grill-sized propane tanks."
Not really a viable bomb though. More like a flamethrower.
I guess this shows how successful the Bush/Obama work has been to de-fang the taliban…. All they can afford are M80s..?? Gee, I suppose this means a grand success.. Still, let me ask all of you, how many Muslim guards keeping secure the Russian nuclear arsenal..?? If the answer is more than ZERO, all these failed attempts could result in ….well, you decide.. Killing people, stealing their land, their resources….. demonizing them and crushing them and their political will to humiliate them, their PEOPLE and their co-religionists is insane… There are over a billion of THEM.. The little bully reads thoz David an Goliath stories and thinks their nuclear sling will win 100000000% of the time… But unless they change their behavior, they will be back on the road with half of em gone…
Fat chance.
Or perhaps the stink of Marcinko.
I always enjoy your comments not only on this forum but others too.. but I do Not understand this one… Perhaps I am not enough familiar with Marcinko..
"Everything that power does not forecast, because it has not organised it, therefore becomes a 'plot' against it; on the other hand, artificial terrorism, being organised and directed by the masters of the spectacle, is a real and spontaneous phenomenon that these latter continually feign to fight, for the simple reason that it is easier to defend oneself from a simulated enemy than from a real one…"
Gianfranco Sanguinetti [tr. Prigent/Forsyth fr. M.]
This was an Israeli “false flag” attack according to Gordon Duff. http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/05/gordon-duff-time…
What a load of CRAP! This is nothing but more lead-up to an eventual attack on Iran and Pakistan. This is 'False Flag' war propaganda. What's next? More grainy, inaudible "newly found" tapes of these guys "plotting" this is some dark cave in the middle of nowhere?
All lies and first bautallah hakim masood come alive and then claim for NY car boomb and then USA have very clear sign to fully attack fucking pakistan to take over fuck motherfuckers pakies
what fine wag the dogs game. Salute to you USA and Israel.
What a great game of world centrol of empire.
go on man you will have empire one day
All lies and first bautallah hakim masood come alive and then claim for NY car boomb and then USA have very clear sign to fully attack fucking pakistan to take over fuck motherfuckers pakies
what fine wag the dogs game. Salute to you USA and Israel.
What a great game of world centrol of empire.
go on man you will have empire one day
Possibly. But who actually remembers there is a tris de pasta of wars on?