Pakistan's Taliban chief promised attacks on major US cities in a video apparently dated early April and released following the weekend's car bomb attempt in New York City, a monitoring group said Monday. It followed reports of another video in which the group apparently tried to take credit for that attempted strike. US authorities have played down the potential connection between the Pakistani militant network and the car bomb attempt in New York's Times Square, saying the group does not have the global infrastructure to carry out such a strike. However, the Pakistani Taliban could expand their reach through their alliances with al-Qaida and other groups. The latest video is about nine minutes long and features Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief, according to IntelCenter, a US-based group that monitors militant media. Mehsud does not specifically mention New York, but says he is speaking on April 4 of this year, and promises that, "God willing, very soon in some days or a month's time, the Muslim (community) will see the fruits of most successful attacks of our fedayeen in USA." "Fedayeen" usually refers to suicide bombers, which the car bomb attempt in New York did not involveMehsud also refutes earlier Pakistani and American claims that he died in a US missile strike in January, a belief Pakistani intelligence officials recently revised. The video follows a second, shorter clip in which the group appears to claim responsibility for the attempted car bomb ...
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