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Pakistan Massacre Organizer Vows More Killings
Taliban Chief Says Deaths Are in Response to Military Offensive in the North
http://www.wsj.com/articles/pakistan-taliban-vows-more-killings-of-military-children-1418927695

By SYED SHOAIB HASAN
Dec. 18, 2014 1:34 p.m. ET

KARACHI, Pakistan—The self-proclaimed organizer of the siege that killed 132 schoolchildren this week in the Pakistani city of Peshawar vowed in a video message Thursday that his fighters would attack more schools and hit other civilian targets.

Khalifa Omar Mansoor, named by the Pakistani Taliban as the man who organized the attack, appeared in a short video that was uploaded to a site used by the militants for distributing propaganda videos.

Mr. Mansoor said the group would continue to strike civilians in revenge for Pakistani military operations under way in the country’s North Waziristan tribal area to destroy al Qaeda and Taliban havens, claiming that ordinary Pakistanis have disregarded the plight of residents there.

Pakistan’s security forces say they are focused on taking out the Taliban, but some civilian casualties are inevitable. They deny there have been large-scale civilian casualties

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“This is something we cannot accept anymore, and if you continue to target our women and children, then your children will not be safe anymore,” said Mr. Mansoor. “We announce that we will not discriminate in our attacks any longer, and will be as unconcerned as you are.”

The Pakistani military launched its offensive in North Waziristan this summer. North Waziristan is the last of the tribal areas that is being cleared by the Pakistani army, and the operation has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The attack in Peshawar, which claimed 148 lives, was on Peshawar’s Army Public School. The school served the children of army personnel as well as the children of civilians. Pakistan has 146 Army Public Schools around the country, and many other schools administered by other arms of the military.

Mr. Mansoor threatened to target similar institutions around the country.

“I want to tell the Pakistan government, and the directors, teachers and students of the army’s affiliated institutions that you are the ones strengthening this un-Islamic democratic system,” he said. “It is these institutions that graduate future generals, brigadiers and majors, who then kill Taliban and innocent tribal people.”

Pakistan’s army doesn't comment on specific threats.

Before Tuesday’s massacre in Peshawar, the Pakistani Taliban had been hesitant to claim responsibility for attacks on civilians, saying the group was going after security forces and the government.

In a written news release this week, the Pakistani Taliban had named Mr. Mansoor as the organizer of the attack. Mr. Mansoor appeared in a picture that featured him with the squad of gunmen who purportedly carried out the attack. All seven attackers were killed in the siege.

According to Pakistani security experts, Mr. Mansoor is the head of the Pakistani Taliban chapter that originates from the tribal region of Darra Adam Khel, in northwestern Pakistan. The group grabbed international headlines in 2009 when it beheaded a kidnapped Polish engineer.

“Currently, the two hard-line and most effective groups within the Pakistani Taliban are the Mohmand Taliban, led by Umar Khalid, and the Dara group led by Khalifa Omar,” said Rahimullah Yusufzai, a Peshawar-based expert on militancy in the region. “The Dara group is particularly effective around the Peshawar valley region and have been involved in most of the deadly attacks here.”
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Is this that Muslims kill Muslims issue or that terrorists kill citizens issue?
All the Islamic countries must show your attitude.
All the Islamic leaders must address their interpreting Islamic law toward such tragedies.
All the Islamic leader have full of responsibilities because terrorists or believers such as Taliban, ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram only listen to the Islamic leaders and never to the rule of law.