they failed. not only did the attack fail to silence a girl who has become a global superstar, it cost the taliban key support at home in pakistan. they seek to win back friends as well as keeping those they still have. the author is a notorious taliban commander. you can see this death squad around me. we want to you surrender to us. he was sentenced to death for his part in a plot to asass nas the president musharraf and escaped in a mass jail break and now he is trying to restore the taliban s reputation by writing letters. he wreets to malala, when you were attacked it was shocking for me. i wished it would never have happened. rasheed was in prison when malala was shot at close range by fighter that is board frd her school bus and asked for her by name. he repeats the taliban claimed that she was not targeted because she was going to school but because she had spoken out against their campaign in her