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Swat Taliban claim responsibility for Timergara blast, target killing

Posted on: Mon April 26, 2010

PESHAWAR: The Swat Taliban have claimed responsibility for the April 24 suicide bombing targeting the police in Timergara, Dir Lower district, and the recent target killings of five anti-Taliban activists in different parts of Swat.

Omar Hasan Ahrabi, the spokesman of Swat Taliban, in a phone call to The News from an undisclosed location on Sunday said that a Taliban bomber carried out the attack against a vehicle transporting members of the Swat Police on the Timergara bypass and inflicted losses on the cops. He declined to give the name of the bomber when asked about his identity.

Ten cops were wounded, two of them seriously, in the suicide attack in which an explosives-laden car rammed into the police vehicle. The personnel of Swat Police were coming to Timergara to pick up the detained militants and take them to Mingora for court hearings.

The Swat Taliban spokesman also claimed responsibility for target killings of five pro-government and anti-Taliban activists in Mingora, Kuza Bandai and Dherai in Swat. He warned that anyone opposing or spying on the Taliban would be attacked.

Taliban spokesman Ahrabi reiterated his warning to the people in Swat and rest of Malakand division to stay away from security forces and police positions, government installations and ANP meetings as these were legitimate targets for the militants. He threatened the military that the death of each and every Taliban militant would be avenged. Allah s writ instead of government s writ would be restored in Swat and whole of Malakand region, he stressed.

The spokesman asked the people of Swat not to buy the land and other property of Khans in the district as these lands were disputed and Taliban had to settle scores with these landlords. When asked about Swat Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah s health and whereabouts, the spokesman said he was all right and his videotape would be made available to the media in the near future. I am in touch with him through letters. He is now in Pakistan though he earlier had crossed over to Afghanistan and phoned reporters from there, the Swat Taliban spokesman said.

Courtesy :The News