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Justice Department charges the leader of Pakistan's Taliban with conspiracy in CIA bombing

U.S. officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees.The Pakistani group, known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban or TTP, was officially designated a "foreign terrorist organization," a classification that imposes additional State and Treasury department sanctions. The Pakistani Taliban threatens U.S. national security, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a note published in the Federal Register.The Justice Department then unsealed charges against the self-proclaimed emir of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud. He is accused of planning the December 2009 attack in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing a Jordanian intelligence officer and the CIA employees.Conviction on the two conspiracy charges, which were entered on Aug....

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