Saturday, April 4, 2009

Pakistani Taliban Chief Claims Responsibility for NY Shooting Rampage

Pakistani Taliban militant leader Baituallah Mehsud claimed on Saturday responsibility for an attack on a US immigration centre in New York state in which 13 people were killed.



"I accept resonsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to US drone attacks," Mehsud told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. A man armed with two handguns killed 13 people at an immigration services centre before apparently turning the gun on himself, authorities in Binghamton, New York, said. Representative Maurice Hinchey, whose district includes Binghamton, told the New York Times that indications are thegunman was an immigrant from Vietnam.

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