Ilyas Kashmiri had convened a meeting of militant leaders to discuss hitting foreign embassies and also trying to poison Nato food supplies en route to Afghanistan to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden.
The plans were disclosed as distrust between Washington and Islamabad still surrounded Kashmiri's reported death on June 3.
US officials said their working assumption was that he remained alive despite assurances from Pakistan.
His new squad had plans to target the American, Saudi and Emirati embassies in Pakistan, according to reports.
Kashmiri called Pakistani Taliban commanders, including Asmatullah Maavia, Amjad Farooqui and Badar Mansoor to the meeting in North Waziristan a few days before he was reportedly killed. » | Ben Farmer, Kabul | Tuesday, June 07, 2011
