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Pakistan’s Vows To Eliminate Taliban - Taliban Vows To Eliminiate Pak Leaders Posted: 10 May 2009 01:30 AM PDT Pakistan’s Prime Minister used a late-night, nationally televised address to officially announce a military operation to “eliminate” the Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, where the largest human exodus in South Asia since the partition of India and Pakistan continued for the twelfth straight day. Source And in response… Angered by Pakistan government’s decision to launch an all out war against them, the Taliban has vowed to “eliminate” country’s top leadership including President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and their close family embers. “We thought that being a member of a religious family, Gilani will support our demand of implementing Sharia in the Malakand division but instead he has announced an all-out war against us, which has angered our commanders as well as fighters,” an unnamed Taliban commander told The News daily. The militant commander, who spoke to the newspaper by phone, said after Gilani declared during an address to the nation on Thursday that the Taliban would be wiped out from the Swat Valley and adjoining areas, the militants had started planning to “eliminate the top leaders of the ruling alliance, including President, Prime Minister and their close family members and aides”. The commander said Gilani’s hometown of Multan and tomb of former premier Benazir Bhutto might also be targeted by the militants. “Besides, the personnel and installations of security forces, we have now also included civilian rulers in our hit list. We will definitely need some time to plan our actions but it is not impossible for us and we have all the means to implement our plan of attack anywhere in Pakistan,” he claimed. The militant commander confirmed that the chief of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, was advising militants in Swat in their fight against the security forces. He said Mehsud had advised the Swat chapter of his group to plan attacks on civilian leaders. Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

9th Grade Students Asked To Plot Terror Attack - Colorado Posted: 10 May 2009 01:18 AM PDT A ninth grade history project at a high school in Pueblo was supposed to teach students about terrorism, but instead it outraged parents. Gini Fischer says her daughter came home Thursday saying she had two minutes to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism. Over 110 freshmen at Pueblo County High School were given the project. The teacher claims the assignment was to illustrate an act of terrorism by a foreign government on American soil. Fischer says, “To ask them to use their creative energies to come up with a plot for an act of terrorism is very ludicrous.” District 70 Superintendent Dr. Dan Lere said students may have misinterpreted the assignment. He says if a student, “actually did illustrate an act of terrorism that they might commit, let’s say against the school, we’ve expelled students for that.” The school district has decided to collect the assignment from students and destroy them. Source This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Share this post

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