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 Thursday, August 07, 2008 

The Pakistani Taliban says that "highly-motivated 'boys and girls' are eager to mount suicide attacks all over the country, including Karachi, targeting high-profile government functionaries," according to this:

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday in Anayat Kalley, some eight kilometres from the agency headquarters of the Bajaur Agency, the Tehrik’s deputy chief Maulana Faqir Mohammad and spokesman Maulvi Omar said that a ‘Fidayeen Squad’, comprising 10- to 20-year-old boys and girls, was ready to carry out the attacks if the government did not immediately stop the operation in Swat and did not reverse its decision to launch military operation in other tribal areas.

Maulvi Omar said the Tehrik’s chief, Baitullah Mehsud, had held consultations with key Taliban commanders and they were of the opinion that the only way to effectively counter the government’s aggressive plans was to launch massive attacks.

One can only hope that those attacks will be about as effective as this one:

Two suspected pro-Taliban militants were killed while attempting to detonate explosives in an effort to blow up a school in Pakistan's northwestern valley of Swat, according to media reports quoting the police.

Reported here.

From the desk of Hubert Xapier at 09:35:52 am (192 words)
Filed under: Islam, Terrorism, Pakistan
Tags: suicide bombers, taliban, tehrik-i-taliban pakistan, ttp
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