Pakistani Taliban pledge revenge for Osama’s death
May 2nd, 2011 - 10:35 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 2 (IANS/AKI) The Pakistani Taliban Monday threatened to kill President Asif Ali Zardari and carry out attacks on the Pakistani Army and the US military after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US operation.
Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city, north of Islamabad, early Monday in an operation mounted by the US CIA and Special Forces.
“Now Pakistani rulers, President Zardari and the army will be our first targets. America will be our second target,” Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), told news agencies by telephone from an undisclosed location.
The Taliban are an ally of Al Qaeda.
–IANS/AKI
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