Special Dispatch |2934| May 2, 2010Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor/Urdu-Pashtu Media Project | |
'Taliban Commander' Claims Responsibility for Failed Times Square Attack
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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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