Via Telegraph:
As Pakistanis united in revulsion at the massacre of 141 pupils and teachers at Peshawar’s Army Public School last week and the government began executing convicted terrorists in response, the Taliban commander who ordered the slaughter emerged from hiding to justify it.
Umar Mansoor, a long-bearded, 36-year-old father of three known as “Slim” for his athletic build and passion for volleyball, shook his finger at the camera and said it had been a simple act of revenge for the women and children killed in the Pakistan army’s war on terrorism in the Taliban’s tribal strongholds along the Afghan border.
“If our women and children die as martyrs, your children will not escape,” he said.
His finger wagging, however, was a sleight of hand: the Taliban leader really pulling the strings is Maulana Fazlullah, a bearded terrorist demagogue best known for the attempted assassination of Malala Yusufzai, the 15-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner who was shot in the head in 2012 for defying his ban on girls attending school.