Taliban strike US consul vehicle

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility. We say to the Americans and NATO that we will carry out more deadly attacks and we can do it, Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said in a phone call. We had warned that we will avenge the martyrdom of Osama.

The Americans were travelling in two cars from their homes to the heavily protected consulate building when a car bomb exploded nearby,said US Embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez. The Americans from the hit car were whisked away in a second vehicle. The most serious wound was a possible broken hand,he said.