[Geo News] WANA: Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud has claimed responsibility for carrying out attack on Manawan Police Training Center in Lahore on Monday, saying that TTP was not involved in terror attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team and suicide attacks in Mosques. The mosques might be other branches of the TTP, or controlled directly by al-Q. Some of the mosque kabooms were imambargahs, which are Shiite mosques, so that'd prob'ly be Lashkar-e-Jhangvi keeping their hand in even though al-Q pretty much owns them now. I think the last one, in Jamrud, was in conjunction with shelling the bridge to cut supply lines to Jalalabad.
However, he said the man arrested from Manawa Police Station premises allegedly involved in the attack was not the member of his organization and he had nothing to do with him.
He was just wandering by with a pocketful of grenades...
Talking to reporters on phone from undisclosed location here on Tuesday, he made it clear that they will continue the revenge attacks unless drone attacks were stopped. "We are capable to carry out such attacks that could surprise the government and few such attacks would be carried out in next few days", he warned.
No skin off the American fore. Tough nails for the Paks.
TTP chief said that the government of Pakistan had announced support to the new US policy and Zardari's policy is that of US policy, adding that on the one side Zardari opposed drone attack on media but on the other is supporting it secretly.
And on the third hand he's opposing it, whilst on the fourth hand he's in favor. We're pretty used to Pak pols now.
He said US being hundreds of kilometers away from here, came and destroyed the Taliban government in Afghanistan and has failed completely because neither it established peace nor control drugs. About US reward of $ 0.5 million of his head, Baitullah Mehsud said, "he is capable to get rid of US and being a free man will take revenge from US inside it but in the meantime we are taking revenge from Pakistan".
That probably made sense in the original Gibberish.
Condemning suicide attacks inside Mosques he said that his organization had nothing to do with such un-Islamic practices. Meanwhile, media also quoted TTP chief as saying that he was planning a big attack on Washington that would be surprising for the whole world.
Brilliant move, now that attention span in the U.S. has drifted from the War on Terror to partisan pie fights and looting the remains of the treasury.
According to media report, in audio message, Baitullah said he will target Pakistani military in return to drone attacks. According to the report, Baitullah also claimed responsibility for attacks on police station in Sitara Market and police checkpost in Bannu.