Benazir will be targeted if she supports US

London, Oct 19: Pakistani Taliban chief Haji Umer has warned that former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto would be targeted by them, if she supports the US policies in the country.

Umer said that the former prime minister returned on the behest of Washington, The Dawn reported. Talking to the BBC Pushto service from an undisclosed location, Umer said that Benazir was returning to Pakistan to support US war against Taliban.

Commenting on Benazir"s statement that al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden was in Pakistan and she would support Washington to arrest him, Umer said Pakistani or coalition forces did not catch Osama, which suggests that he was not here.

Taliban would take revenge of all children and women that were injured and killed in an operation in North Waziristan, the daily quoted him, as saying. He said that they would release the detained army officers if the govt releases their arrested colleagues.

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