Sunday, 2 May 2010


MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute
Special Dispatch |2934| May 2, 2010
Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor/Urdu-Pashtu Media Project

'Taliban Commander' Claims Responsibility for Failed Times Square Attack


A jihadist internet forum reports that Qari Hussain Mehsud, a key leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) and a close lieutenant of TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud, has claimed responsibility for the New York's Times Square failed car bomb plot.

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