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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 01 > Feds call Taliban’s threats of striking U.S. just bluster

Feds call Taliban’s threats of striking U.S. just bluster

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
April 1, 2009

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Taliban chief claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a police academy, saying he wanted to retaliate for U.S. missile attacks on the militant bases bordering Afghanistan.

Baitullah Mehsud, who has a $5 million bounty on his head from the....

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