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Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Taliban denies role in hotel attack

Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Taliban denies role in hotel attack: "A senior commander of the Taliban in Pakistan has denied that his group was responsible for a bomb attack at Islamabad's Marriott hotel, in which at least 53 people died and 270 were injured.

Baitullah Mehsud said on Monday that the Taliban had no role in Saturday's attack, Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, reported.

'Mehsud said that their group does not believe in killing so many locals in the attack,' Hyder said."

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