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In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, new Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, left, is seen with his comrade Waliur

Islamabad - Pakistan’s Taliban on Friday threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe “very soon” and dismissed a move by Washington to add the group to its terrorism blacklist.

The United States on Wednesday said it had added Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or the Taliban Movement of Pakistan, to its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

“The U.S. listing of TTP as a terrorist organization is a sign of them bring scared. It shows the U.S. and its allies are scared of us,” Qari Hussain Mehsud, a senior TTP leader, told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

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