home region. he writes that the taliban never attacked you because of going to school. the taliban are not against the education of any men or women or girls. taliban believe that you are intentionally writing against them and running a smear campaign. he admits fighters are prone to blowing up schools and says the pakistan army is doing it, too, since both sides are in the habit of turning into hideouts and transit camps. that revelation fails to explain the violent campaign against teachers and school students waged across the country. pakistan has a new government and the taliban seem to want to send a message theng be reasonable. sensible members of the taliban are rattled by some of the bad p.r. they have been getting by the assassination attempt against malala. he wouldn t be saying all of this unless he felt that he had some kind of case to answer in pakistani public opinion. playing to that opinion, the commander poses a question for
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
malala to ponder. i ask you and be honest in your reply, if you were shot by americans in a drone attack, would the world ever have heard updates on your medical status? then he finishes his letter with some advice. i advise you to come back home, adopt the islamic culture and join any female in islamic dress in your hometown and study and learn the book. it is not aan invitation her family will be taking up. they refused to comment but say they never received their own copy. all right. that was kylie morris reporting there. we have news we do have the massachusetts district attorney s office investigating the death of steven rakes. this is a man who was prepared to testify in the trial of the reputed boston mob boss james whitey boulder. he has been found dead. this is in lincoln, massachusetts, discovered at about 1:30 p.m. wednesday. he was on the prosecution list and testified and then was
more so after the attack on the school girl malala. militants tried to kill her because she spoke out against the taliban ban on girls getting educated in traditional schools. now a senior taliban commander has written kind of a bizarre letter to her. it is part threat, part apology. itn s kylie morris has the story. a dear malala letter from her taliban attackers written by a senior regional commander sent via e-mail from a trusted source to this program. intended as a response to the pakistan school girl s em passioned speech to the u.n. on the 9th of october, 2012, the taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. they shot my friends, too. they thought that the bullet would silence us.