Thread: The Jihadists’ Eternal Plan

Group Claims Responsibility for Easter Terror Attack That Injured Hundreds
– And It’s Not ISIS
By Frank Camp (5 hours ago)
http://www.ijreview.com/2016/03/5704...-its-not-isis/

A radical Islamic terrorist organization known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaatul Ahrar (TTP-JA) has claimed responsibility for the horrific attack in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan.

NBC News reports that Ehsanullah Ehsan, the spokesman for the group, called them from an “undisclosed location” using an Afghani phone number.

Ehsan said that women and children were not the target: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/su...kistan-n546231

“We didn’t want to kill women and children. Our targets were male members of the Christian community.”

Despite Ehsan’s claim, many of the victims were indeed women and children.

According to the National Counterterrorism Center, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaatul Ahrar (TTP-JA) is an “alliance of militant networks” in Pakistan affiliated with Al Qaeda: http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/ttp.html

“TTP’s stated objectives are the expulsion of Islamabad’s influence in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and neighboring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan, the implementation of a strict interpretation of sharia throughout Pakistan, and the expulsion of Coalition troops from Afghanistan.

TTP leaders also publicly say that the group seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan that would require the overthrow of the Pakistani Government.”

At least 60 were killed, and hundreds injured in the brutal Easter Sunday attack. http://www.ijreview.com/2016/03/570400-lahore-blast/


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