- Taliban release photographs showing six men who carried out massacre
- Heavy armed fighters posed in front of white Islamic banner before attack
- Spokesman vowed Taliban would carry out similar attacks in the future
- Added that Pehshawar massacre was 'just the trailer' for other atrocities
- Maulana Fazlullah ordered yesterday's bloody slaughter of 132 children
- Previously demanded the death of teenage education campaigner Malala
Published:
09:29 GMT, 17 December 2014
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Updated:
14:20 GMT, 17 December 2014
Horrifying
pictures have emerged showing the Taliban gun squad who slaughtered 132
innocent children as it was revealed the terror group is planning more
attacks at schools in Pakistan.
Released
by the terror group's spokesman Mohammad Khurasani, the photographs
show six heavily armed men posing in front of a white Islamic banner
shortly before the attack in Peshawar.
In
an email released this morning, Khurasani attempted to justify the
attack by claiming that said the Pakistani army has long killed the
innocent children and families of Taliban fighters.
He
vowed more such militant attacks and told Pakistani civilians to detach
themselves from all military institution, adding: 'We are still able to
carry out major attacks. This was just the trailer.'
In
the email, the terror group warned Muslims to avoid places with
military ties, saying it attacked the school to avenge the deaths of
children allegedly killed by soldiers in tribal areas. It accused the
students at the army school of 'following the path of their fathers and
brothers to take part in the fight against the tribesmen' nationwide.
This
morning, a Peshawar began the harrowing process of conducting mass
funerals, the family of a teacher torched alive in front of her class by
the men gathered to say funeral prayers.
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Depraved: The Taliban gunmen who
slaughtered 148 innocent people, including 132 children, are pictured
posing in front of a white Islamic banner just hours before the massacre
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In disguise: The photographs show the
six heavily armed men wearing everyday clothing - a chilling disguise
that meant security guards did not recognise them as being members of
the Taliban
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Armed: Released by the terror group's
spokesman Mohammad Khurasani the third image shows the same group of men
wearing full military fatigues - an outfit that would outed them as
Taliban to security guards
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Terror leader: Maulana Fazlullah - the
firebrand militant, whose thick black beard reaches halfway down his
chest - took control of the Pakistani Taliban 13 months ago
Three photographs of the murders were released by the Pakistani Taliban this morning.
The group are seen wearing full military fatigues and posing in front of a white banner daubed with religious slogans.
It
is not known whether the photographs were taken on the day of the
Peshawar massacre, but all six men pose with assault rifles and appear
primed for combat.
The
emergence of the photographs comes as it was revealed the man who
ordered the bloody slaughter of the 132 children is Maulana Fazlullah -
the head of the country's Taliban terror group and a man whose previous
crimes include ordering the murder of teenage education campaigner
Malala Yousafzai.
The
firebrand militant, whose thick black beard reaches halfway down his
chest, took control of the Pakistani Taliban 13 months ago, and it is
thought yesterday's massacre may have been his barbaric revenge for
Malala, 17, being award the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year.
Whatever his twisted motive, Fazlullah has succeeded in uniting the world in revulsion once again.
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Tahira Kazi (left), the principal of
the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, was set on fire by
jihadists who slaughtered 148 people, most of them children
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