Taliban issues chilling threats against TEN targets in UK, U.S. and France to avenge bin Laden

The Taliban have issued a chilling threat to conduct a series of attacks against 10 targets in Britain, France and the United States to avenge the death of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden.

"Soon you will see the attacks against America and NATO countries, and our top priorities in Europe are France and Britain," Vice Chief of the Pakistani Taliban Wali-ur-Rehman said in an video broadcast on Al-Arabiya on weekends.

The Movement Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP), or the Taliban in Pakistan, who swear allegiance to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, is blamed for most suicide bombings across the country and is very dangerous, despite series of army offensives against its strongholds in the north-west, on the Afghan border.

He has not demonstrated its ability to launch sophisticated attacks in the West, however, and the TTP an apparent bid to inflict carnage in the U.S. have failed.

The group has claimed responsibility for the suicide car bomb failed to New York at Times Square last year.

But U.S. intelligence agencies take it seriously. It was then added to the list of countries of foreign terrorist organizations.

The video showed Rehman, described as more sober and less experienced than other TTP leaders, flanked by armed supporters walking through mountain terrain.