Both Hakeemullah Mehsud's Taliban faction and a group called the Abdullah Uzaam Brigade took credit for the June 9 complex suicide attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar that killed 17 people. Hakeemullah launched the attack because he thought the US was conducting intelligence activities there.
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