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Pakistan Taliban warns of retaliation
Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage that appears to show the group vowing revenge for Osama bin Laden's death.
Last Modified: 18 May 2011 09:19
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The Pakistani Taliban have issued their first videotaped message since Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals earlier this month.
In the exclusive footage, obtained by Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, the group is shown vowing revenge for the al-Qaeda leader's death.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, dozens of fighters attacked security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing two policemen and wounding several others.
Up to 100 fighters reportedly stormed the post near the Khyber tribal area, a stronghold for Taliban fighters.
The Taliban have staged a number of attacks in Pakistan since bin Laden was killed in a US raid on May 2 near the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
Last Friday, at least 76 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a Frontier Constabulary training centre in the northwestern town of Charsadda.
The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack - this year's deadliest on the security forces - to avenge bin Laden's death in a compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad.
Al-Qaeda's interim leader
In another development on Wednesday, Al Jazeera learned that al-Qaeda has appointed a temporary leader and a new head of operations.
Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian, was named interim leader, while Mustafa al-Yemeni, would direct operations.
US prosecutors say Adel is one of al-Qaeda's leading military commanders and helped plan the bomb attacks against the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.
Click here for more of Al Jazeera's coverageThey also say he set up al-Qaeda training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan in the 1990s.
An al-Qaeda expert had said on Tuesday that Adel would likely not act as head of the organisation.
"This role that he has assumed is not as overall leader, but he is in charge in operational and military terms," Noman Benotman, a former bin Laden associate who is now an analyst with Britain's Quilliam Foundation think tank, said.
Adel was believed to have fled to Iran after the US invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, and was subsequently held under a form of house arrest there, according to some media reports.
Arab media reports said Iranian authorities released him from custody about a year ago, and he then moved back to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Some analysts say Adel may have returned to Iran or Afghanistan in recent weeks
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Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage that appears to show the group vowing revenge for Osama bin Laden's death.
Last Modified: 18 May 2011 09:19
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The Pakistani Taliban have issued their first videotaped message since Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals earlier this month.
In the exclusive footage, obtained by Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, the group is shown vowing revenge for the al-Qaeda leader's death.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, dozens of fighters attacked security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing two policemen and wounding several others.
Up to 100 fighters reportedly stormed the post near the Khyber tribal area, a stronghold for Taliban fighters.
The Taliban have staged a number of attacks in Pakistan since bin Laden was killed in a US raid on May 2 near the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
Last Friday, at least 76 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a Frontier Constabulary training centre in the northwestern town of Charsadda.
The Pakistani Taliban said they carried out the attack - this year's deadliest on the security forces - to avenge bin Laden's death in a compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad.
Al-Qaeda's interim leader
In another development on Wednesday, Al Jazeera learned that al-Qaeda has appointed a temporary leader and a new head of operations.
Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian, was named interim leader, while Mustafa al-Yemeni, would direct operations.
US prosecutors say Adel is one of al-Qaeda's leading military commanders and helped plan the bomb attacks against the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.
Click here for more of Al Jazeera's coverageThey also say he set up al-Qaeda training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan in the 1990s.An al-Qaeda expert had said on Tuesday that Adel would likely not act as head of the organisation.
"This role that he has assumed is not as overall leader, but he is in charge in operational and military terms," Noman Benotman, a former bin Laden associate who is now an analyst with Britain's Quilliam Foundation think tank, said.
Adel was believed to have fled to Iran after the US invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, and was subsequently held under a form of house arrest there, according to some media reports.
Arab media reports said Iranian authorities released him from custody about a year ago, and he then moved back to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Some analysts say Adel may have returned to Iran or Afghanistan in recent weeks
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