Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud has made the bizarre claim that his group was responsible for the April 3 shooting at a community center in Binghamton, New York, which killed 13 people. Mehsud said two of his men, one a Pakistani and one a “foreigner,” had carried out the attack. He claimed one of them had conducted a suicide attack, while the other fled.

Mehsud should have googled the Binghamton incident before making up this nonsense. He would have found that the killings were done by a sole gunman, an ethnic Chinese immigrant from Vietnam, Jiverly Wong, who then killed himself. Commenting on Mehsud’s charges, FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said, “based on the evidence, we can firmly discount that claim.”

On the day of the murders, Wong mailed a letter to the “News 10 Now” television station in Syracuse, New York. The text reveals a man tormented by the belief that undercover police are following him everywhere, burning chemicals in his home, touching him in his sleep, spreading rumors about him, trying to cause him to have a car accident, and other paranoid thoughts.

“Cop bring about this shooting. Cop must responsible,” the letter says. There is no mention of the Pakistani Taliban. “And you have a nice day,” it concludes.

People who knew Wong told police they were “not surprised” by the murders. A co-worker said Wong had commented he wanted to kill the president.