[Times-UK] Zahid Hussain and Jeremy Page - Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, threatened to launch an attack on Washington, as he claimed responsibility for a raid on a police academy in Lahore Monday. "Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world....We will exact our revenge on them from inside America," he said Tuesday. Mehsud's power appears to have been enhanced after the Pakistani government reached a peace deal with the Taliban in the northwestern Swat Valley.
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