Two weeks after the death of its leader, Pakistan’s Taliban fulfilled its revenge vows with a double suicide bombing on paramilitary police that killed at least 80 people

Two weeks after the death of their leader, Pakistan’s Taliban fulfilled its revenge vows with a double suicide bombing on paramilitary police that killed at least 80 people.
  
More than 140 people were wounded, 40 of them fighting for their lives, in the deadliest attack in the country this year, which came with the government deep in crisis over the killing of the Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US forces on May 2.
  
Pakistan's senior military officer General Khalid Shameem Wynne cancelled a visit to the United States, a military official said, citing the "prevailing environment".
  
But despite a Pakistani vow Thursday to review intelligence cooperation, CNN reported that US intelligence agents had interrogated three of bin Laden's widows who were apprehended in the raid and taken into Pakistani custody.
  
The women were interviewed as a group, despite US wishes to question them separately, and were openly "hostile" to the US officials, CNN said, quoting a Pakistani official and two US officials.
  
"This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. "Two of our fedayeen (suicide bombers) carried out these attacks," he added.

The Pakistani Taliban last week threatened to attack security forces to avenge bin Laden's killing in a US helicopter raid north of the capital Islamabad.

New details of the 40-minute raid on the high-walled compound have emerged according to CBS News, which said the SEALs recorded the action on tiny helmet-mounted cameras.
  
US officials who have seen the footage said the only firefight took place outside the main compound building, where one of bin Laden's couriers opened fire and was himself shot dead, it reported. The commandos then fired at bin Laden when he appeared on a third floor landing, but missed and he retreated into a bedroom.
  
The first SEAL entered the room and pulled aside bin Laden's daughters who were there with him, while a second commando was confronted by one of his wives who either rushed him or was pushed in his direction, said CBS. According to the report, that second commando pushed the wife out of the way and fired a round into bin Laden's chest, while a third shot bin Laden in the head.