Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who was believed killed in January, vowed attacks on the United States in a new video apparently made last month, the SITE monitoring group said Monday.
Mehsud threatened to retaliate against the United States within a month for the killing of Islamist militant leaders, according to a transcript of the video alleged to have been made on April 4, SITE reported. The time is very near when our fidaeen (soldiers) will attack the American states in the major cities, said Mehsud, who was seen flanked by two armed and masked men in the nine-minute video.
Mehsud was reported to have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan in January, but some reports last week quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying he had survived the attack. Another video allegedly from Mehsud's Tehreek-e-Taliban issued on Sunday claimed it was behind an attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square at the weekend, although the credibility of the claim has been questioned.
If the TTP claim was authenticated, it would be the first attack by the TTP against a target in the United States. Mehsud assumed leadership of the group blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in attacks across Pakistan after his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a US drone strike in August last year. (Hakimullah Mehsud Is Alive, New Video Released)
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