'Taliban Commander' Claims Responsibility for Failed Times Square Attack

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May 2, 2010
Special Dispatch No.2934

'Taliban Commander' Claims Responsibility for Failed Times Square Attack

A jihadist internet forum reports that Qari Hussain Mehsud, a key leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) and a close lieutenant of TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud, has claimed responsibility for the New York's Times Square failed car bomb plot.

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