I am expecting the usual Taliban bachao group to respond in this manner:
1) This is lie. Anyone can claim Taliban name.
2) This is a reaction to Shia's words against the sahaba and Pakistan's support to US
3) This is all a Hollywood movie. Balckwater was involved clearly.
While saying all of this, in their hearts they agree with attacks on shias as per taliban reasoning.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091230/wl_afp/pakistanunrest_20091230142810
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Pakistan's feared Taliban network claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people at a Shiite parade in Karachi and threatened further attacks.
The claim was made by one of Pakistan's most wanted commanders in the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) movement, which for two months has been targeted by a military offensive near the Afghan border.
Monday's attack in Pakistan's biggest city reduced events marking the Shiites' holiest day, Ashura, to carnage and sparked riots, underlining the security challenge faced by the nuclear-armed Muslim country.
It was the deadliest militant attack in Karachi in two years and one of the deadliest sectarian-linked attacks in conservative Pakistan.
"We carried out the suicide bombing in Karachi," Asmatullah Shaheen, a top militant commander based in South Waziristan, told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
"We did it to protect the honour of the companions of the holy prophet," he said, referring to a centuries-old disagreement between Sunni Muslims, who dominate the Taliban, and Shiite Muslims over the succession to the Prophet Mohammed.
"We will carry out more such attacks and also target government installations," Shaheen added.
