Pakistani Taliban Chief Vows Attacks on U.S. in Video
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Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader reported killed in a U.S. missile strike four months ago, appeared to have emerged alive in a video to warn that his group will attack major American cities.
Taliban fighters “have penetrated the terrorist America,” and “the time is very near when our Fidaeen will attack the American states in their major cities,” said Mehsud in a nearly nine-minute video found on the Web by IntelCenter, an intelligence firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. English subtitles on the video cite Mehsud giving the date as April 4, while Mehsud, speaking in his native Pashto, says it is April 19.