Taliban video promises U.K. suicide attack

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A Taliban video released last week shows recruits promising to go to Britain and carry out a suicide attack against "a place of crucial importance.”

Most of the video was shot earlier this year, at a “graduation ceremony” for Taliban suicide bombers June 9 to which the group invited several journalists, and portions of it were broadcast at the time by ABC and BBC television news.

During the ceremony, Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah introduces several groups of bombers, each of which he said would be targeting the troops of a different coalition nation in neighboring Afghanistan.

But the leader of the group targeting Britain, speaking in broken English, says he will be departing “along with my team, to have a suicide attack in Britain.”

Saying that Britain, the United States and their allies had a “bloody obsession to eliminate the Muslims from the surface of the Earth,” he promises “me and my colleagues and companions will sacrifice our lives as a suicidal at a place of crucial importance which will whip them as we are being whipped.”

Intelcenter, a consultancy that monitors extremist video and audio messaging, said they assessed “the threat of attack in Britain to be credible and of concern.”