Pakistan: Taliban to Media - "You're next."

You better start calling us Mujahideen! You got that? And if you keep calling us terrorists - we're going to act like terrorists and blow you up!

From the Daily Times:

Meanwhile, a Taliban group also sent two letters to the Lahore Press Club – one on October 12 and the other on October 14 – warning that if the media “does not stop portraying us as terrorists ... we will blow up offices of journalists and media organisations”.

Sources in the press club said both the letters were written by the ‘Sarf Mission’, which introduced itself as “a group affiliated with the Taliban”. The group claimed that it could mount attacks anytime after October 10.

Lahore Press Club Secretary Zahid Abid told Daily Times that in the first letter, it was written that after the attacks on a UN office, the General Headquarters and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto – “it is very easy for us to launch an attack anywhere”.

According to the letters, the Taliban would target chief editors, editors and reporters of media groups, said Abid, adding that the Taliban also threatened the Mughalpura and Harbanspura police stations in the letters.

“If the chief justice does not release our colleagues, the Taliban will also target him and his family,” warned the letters. The group said that Taliban should be referred to as mujahideen.

Makes my attendance at the Denver 'Can You Hear us NOW?' march this afternoon look kind of tame, doesn't it?