Taliban commander makes new threats against US

ABC News:

As senior intelligence and law enforcement officials met again today in the White House Situation Room to deal with the "summer terror threat," a top terror commander said an attack was coming that would dwarf the failed bombings in London and Glasgow.

Taliban military commander Mansour Dadullah, in an interview broadcast on ABC News' "World News With Charles Gibson," said the London attacks were "not enough" and that bigger attacks were coming.

"You will, God willing, be witness to more attacks," he told a Pakistani journalist in an interview conducted just four days ago.

Just last month, Dadullah presided over what was termed a terror training camp graduation ceremony in Pakistan, supposedly dispatching attack teams to the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany.

In this new interview, Dadullah talked about the ease with which he and his men operate inside Pakistan.

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He probably made that statement before Pakistan sent its troops back into the tribal areas today. After he made his bold assertion of sending out human bombs a week later a six year old boy showed up outside a Afghan camp and asked for help in disarming the device they had strapped to him. Right now I think this guy has about as much credibility as Saddam had when he was bragging about stopping the US attack.

Pakistan is going to have to do more to earn the money we are giving them to fight these people. If they are not willing or able to clean out these tribal areas then we should do so with the help of NATO.

Wretchard looks at the rationale behind such an announcement and finds little logic in it.