Pakistani Taliban Claim Credit for Failed NYC Times Square Car Bombing

The Long War Journal ^ | Sunday, May 2, 2010 | Bill Roggio

[kristinn]

A top Pakistani Taliban commander took credit for yesterday's failed car bomb attack in New York City.

Qari Hussain Mehsud, the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, said he takes "fully responsibility for the recent attack in the USA." Qari Hussain made the claim on an audiotape accompanied by images that was released on a YouTube website that calls itself the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel.

The tape has yet to be verified, but US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal believe it is legitimate. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan News Channel on YouTube was created on April 30. Officials believe it was created to announce the Times Square attack, and Qari Hussain’s statement was pre-recorded.

"This attack is a revenge for the great & valuable martyred leaders of mujahideen," Qari Hussain said. He listed Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban who was killed in a Predator strike in August 2009, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the former leader of al Qaeda Islamic State of Iraq who was killed by Iraqi forces in mid-April. And although he was not mentioned, an image of Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was also displayed in the images accompanying the audiotape.

Qari Hussain also said the failed attack was "revenge for the Global American interference & terrorism in Muslim countries, especially in Pakistan for Lal Masjid operation," a reference to the July 2008 Pakistani military assault on Islamists holed up in the Red Mosque in Islamabad, as well as Predator strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and the arrest and detention of Pakistani scientist Aifa Siddique.

YouTube video of claim

[sonic109]

Whatever is the best answer for this crime POLITICALLY will be the one we get. It will serve the Emperor better if it’s a right wing terror attack so THAT my friends is what the MSM will tell you and the OFFICIAL White House press release will tell you , truth be dammed.

[kristinn]

I think if the plane that was meant for D.C. on 9/11 had taken off on time and hit when and where it was supposed to, either the White House or Capitol, that President Bush would have been urged by the American people to use tactical nukes against al Qaeda and the Taliban as a warning to any state or group to not even think about trying to attack us again.

I think he would have done so.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[purplelobster]

Barry’s outreach charm tour of foreign muslim communities is paying off dividends. After coddling the underpants bomber we’re back to complacency.

[MestaMachine]

ping

[tobyhill]

Taliban takes credit and Obama keeps partying with the MSM.

[basil]

Thanks—I missed that gem.....

[melancholy]

Kristinn,

You may want to look at this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2505029/posts?page=119#119

[ichabod1]

The System Worked Again!

(dumb luck. Been itching to say that all morning)

[MestaMachine]

Aren't you reading this? The thing was PRERECORDED before the bomb was even planted. They expected to be celebrating a great victory. They did not know when they recorded this statement that the damn thing was going to fail!

[GeronL]

Now try and say its “not terrorism” Janet Nappy.

lol

[GeronL]

That Youtube Channel was created a day or two before the attempt, for the purpose of claiming responsibility. I guess whether it succeeds or not they wanted us to know what group did it.

Terrorism needs terror, whether it blows or just scares the crap out of people.

[Star Traveler]

Well, there’s a “line” that I know if you cross, a nuclear response at the perpetrating government would be considered justified. The question here is how far “back” from that line can you go and perhaps expect a nuclear response. And also, can you even identify a “perpetrating government” to do so for that kind of response?

While I can say I am assured that “nuke for nuke” response would happen (with some perpetrating government), I don’t know how far “back” and “before” that line — that you would get “nuke for something else”.

AND, if it did happen (let’s say for that plane in DC, you get a nuclear response) — it wouldn’t be Mecca, which is what the poster was saying. If such a nuclear response were to be considered justified in that hypothetical example — it would be something directed at the Taliban and their government and whatever power base that they had.

The more you get into something like these “hypotheticals” and “pushing the line back” further away from “nuke for nuke” response — the nuttier the whole thing becomes in a discussion anyway...

[verity]

"Qari Hussain Mehsud, NO LONGER the top bomb maker for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan..."

[freebird5850]

Certainly not against his buddies in Pokistan. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t know about it.

[livius]

Well, especially since it was pre-recorded, which obviously means they knew about this in advance and it was not bumbling right wingers, as MSNBC tried to suggest.

[tobyhill]

“This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”

[ladyvet]

” ...I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings...”
Obama, Cairo 2009

Sooo, hows that working out for ya Bambi?

[kristinn]

Thanks for the update.

[rockinqsranch]

“.....why would the guy be bragging about a failed bomb?....”

I believe the reason they went ahead and released the video in spite of the failed attempt was to show they have the ability to reach us. Terrorism is for the purpose to terrorize, and letting us know they can reach us, they can touch us with proof positive in our own media is terrorizing.

In a sense they did succeed.

Now let’s see what the Zero’s next move will be.