Pak Taliban claim responsibility for New York shootout

[canetoad]

Source: The Times of India

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Saturday claimed responsibility for a shooting incident at an immigration services office in New York which claimed 14 lives.

The Pakistani Taliban commander claimed the attack was launched by a Pakistani man and another unidentified man.

"I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to US drone attacks," Mehsud said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

The chief of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan warned that "such attacks would continue" to avenge missile strikes by US drones in tribal areas and "brutalities in Palestine."

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/US/Pak-Taliban-claim-responsibility-for-New-York-shootout/articleshow/4358485.cms

[tomm2thumbs]

1. and they were also responsible for the collapse of AIG, yeah, that's it - they did it

Oh, and the bad pistachios and what-not. It's all becoming clear to me now.

[Make7]

2. Three days late. ( n/t )

[ConcernedCanuk]

22. How so? - the shootings took place yesterday, Friday 3rd of May around 10:30am

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other observations

13 people were killed in the last Drone attack in Pakistan

The shooter, with lots of ammunition and targets left, took his own life after killing 13 people.

SWAT was nowhere near to entering the building, didn't do so till HOURS after the last shot - so coulda killed MORE people without a problem.

The fact that he was not of Eastern descent, had been in the country legally for decades does NOT eliminate the possibility he was recruited by the Taliban or Al Qaida.

All our killings across the Globe are gonna come back to us sooner or later.

SOMEONE is gonna try to get even with us for our murderous ways across the ponds.

Maybe it's starting to happen?

More is coming.

Bet on it.

(sigh)

[ohio2007]

24. sounds like an upcomming "truther" screed to explain events to fit a

they lean so far in opposite directions that they actually rub shoulders from the other direction and see
" eye to eye...tooth to tooth " ;

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e5d_1238807026


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no difference between the two

jmo
they are good for a chuckle since they put themselves on the clock

[B Whale]

3. Nonsense. What an idiot this guy is

[Swagman]

4. wacky CIA humour

[cali]

5. Sorry, it's more likely a desperate Taliban bid for attention

[bottomtheweaver]

6. Same thing. n/t

[cali]

10. yes, yes. The CIA runs the Taliban.

the death of critical thinking is a sad thing.

[bottomtheweaver]

11. Speaking of critical thinking

you forgot to explain why the Taliban shot up the immigration services center.

[cali]

13. uh, grab a clue.

I already stated that the Taliban claim was simply a bid for attention. Clearly, that means the claim was bullshit. Obviously the Taliban had jackshit to do with the attack in Binghamton, which sadly, was almost certainly a run of the mill American shooting/mass murder tragedy.

The death of reading for comprehension is also a sad thing.

[bottomtheweaver]

16. Yes yes, the Taliban is "desperate" to gin up a war against itself.

Of course.

[cali]

19. The Taliban wants to project power

[ohio2007]

23. They are geographically 'challenged' from the mountain hideouts

New York close enough to DC to stake a claim;

Taliban Leader: We're Planning Attack On D.C. "Soon"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3808289&mesg_id=3808289

[bottomtheweaver]

25. The FBI has apparently decided

that the story was too "challenged" to live.

[BunkerHill24]

7. There goes all the credibility the Taliban had with the US listeners

[OakCliffDem]

9. I would think the shooter was a 'listener' of Rush Limbaugh. n/t

[EFerrari]

8. Well, that's as strange as possible.

[WePurrsevere]

12. "A Pakistani man" ? Try a Vietnamese immigrant who was a naturalized

US citizen, who had recently lost his job, etc. :eyes:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/04/2009-04-04_who_is_jiverly_voong_aka_jiverly_wong_co.html

[EFerrari]

14. Isn't that weird?

Now, it has been reported that in the tribal areas, al Qaida has set up a campus where they bring recruits from all over the world and they have interpreters so these people can train in a bunch of languages. Some version of that is probably true.

But, this individual sure doesn't seem to be one of those students -- he's been here for over 20 years, right?

[ohio2007]

21. Taliban intel didn't translate that part of the article

Those cave dwellars only hope some local nut cases "heed' the call to jihad and do something stupid ...."in the name of jihad" so they can take credit for spreading the word of the
ROP......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3808289&mesg_id=3809305

[Jeep789]

15. "They were my men"??? Did the guy have multiple personalities

or is this guy a delusional, religious, right-wing freak? :dunce:

[UpInArms]

17. a re-working of the old adage

"the enemy of my enemy is my friend men"?

[No Elephants]

18. In a related story, police believe they now know who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

[ohio2007]

20. shots fired in Pittsburgh....three officers hit ....gotta be taliban also

:sarcasm: