Pakistan Taliban threaten US, Pak over Osama bin Laden’s killing
May 2nd, 2011 - 7:07 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, May 2 (ANI): The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday threatened to attack the United States and Pakistan over the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a secret US operation in Pakistan.
“If he has been martyred, we will avenge his death and launch attacks against American and Pakistani governments and their security forces,” The Dawn quoted TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, as saying.
“These people are in fact the enemies of Islam,” he added.
US President Barack Obama had ordered the raid by a small team of US Special Forces, which found Laden, who had evaded capture for a decade, in a home on a fortified compound in Abbottabad city, located 50 kilometres northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometres east of Peshawar.
Laden, accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, was at the top of the US “most wanted” list.
The Saudi-born terrorist had approved the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington in which nearly 3,000 people were killed, saying later that the results had exceeded his expectations. (ANI)
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