Expert dismisses terror leader's massacre claim

Claims by a Pakistani militant leader that his group was responsible for the shootings in New York are “opportunistic” and there is no evidence to support them, a leading terror expert said today.

Professor Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the University of St Andrews Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, said it seemed “unlikely” that terrorists were involved in the shootings as the evidence so far seemed to point to a lone gunman with no political message.