TTP proudly presents: ‘How to attack the CID building’

In a chilling reminder to the threat posed by home-grown militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the media wing of the terrorist outfit has released a confessional video, showing in detail how the suicide bomb attack on the Crime Investigation Department (CID) office was planned and executed on November 11, 2010.
The video includes the confessional statements of three TTP activists named Rehmanullah, Farmanullah and Muhammad Khan, saying they are ready for the attack on the CID building after completing their physical training.
The video, released by the TTP’s media wing Umar media two days ago, shows three persons in an unknown mountainous area involved in intensive militancy training, using Kalashnikovs and hand grenades among other weapons.
The time and date appearing on the video are 11am on October 20, 2010, which suggests that the video was prepared 21 days before the actual attack was carried out. The video is recorded in Pushto but also contains Urdu subtitles.
The footage shows the three men training with their weapons and a truck full of explosives. It shows the militants attacking an unknown building in a hilly area with hand grenades and Kalashnikovs.
It also shows men making a video around the CID building while planning the attack.
“We collected complete information of the guards deputed at the [CID] office and its surroundings, which made the attack easy for us,” it was said in the video.
The video also shows the three alleged attackers standing beside the truck loaded with explosives a while before the bombing. They claim to be going for the attack on the CID head office. It is claimed in the video that Noorullah and Farmanullah attacked the building with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades while Muhammad Khan hit the building with the explosives-laden truck. All of them were killed in the ‘operation’.
“Our activists hit the [CID office] building because it was being used to torture our colleagues,” the voice in the video says.
At the end of the video, the three militants are shown being interviewed by an unidentified person. The attackers say that they have taken part in the war against NATO forces in Afghanistan and are now going to launch an attack on the CID office to take revenge of their arrested brothers, who were tortured to death inside the building by law enforcement personnel. They also ask their colleagues to attack the country’s law enforcement agencies that are involved in kidnapping and murdering their ‘jihadi brothers’.
“I have fought in Pakistan and am now ready for the attack on the CID building. I am carrying out this attack in the way of Allah,” says Muhammad Khan, who allegedly bombed the building with the truck.
“We do not use any drugs and are not launching the attack under [the influence of] drugs. We are in our senses and going for the attack to fulfill the orders of the holy book,” say the other two attackers, who attacked the CID office with Kalashnikovs and hand grenades, making way for the explosive-laden vehicle to be rammed into the building.
Three high-ranked officers of the Karachi police are also shown in the video and declared Israeli agents. “SSP Chaudhry Aslam Khan, SSP Raja Umer Khattab and SP Mazhar Mashwani have martyred dozens of our activists, they are Israeli agents and we will attack them just to teach them a lesson,” it was said in the video.