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Pakistan Taleban threaten to send Musharraf to "hell" when he returns

 
Published on Mar 23, 2013
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Pakistan's Taleban have threatened, in a video released on Saturday, March 23, 2013, to use suicide bombers and snipers to kill former President Pervez Musharraf (above) when he returns home from exile. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The Pakistani Taleban on Saturday threatened to assassinate former president Pervez Musharraf when he returns to the country.

"We have prepared a special squad of suicide bombers for Musharraf," Taleban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"They will attack Musharraf after he arrives Pakistan."

In an interview with AFP in Dubai on Friday, former military ruler Musharraf said he would definitely return home on Sunday to contest historic elections in May, and that he was prepared to risk any danger to his life.

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