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Baitullah Mehsud Killed In Drone Strike

by Owais Ehsan on August 7, 2009

Latest : Mehsud Confirmed Dead

There are reports coming in that the Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud may be dead after a reported drone attack, a US official said on Thursday. If confirmed, the death of Mehsud would be a coup for Washington, which has placed a five-million-dollar bounty on his head and branded him “a key Al Qaeda facilitator” in Pakistan’s tribal belt.

“There is some reason to believe Mehsud may be dead but it cannot be confirmed at this time for certain,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told media.We suspect he was killed in the missile strike,’ Rehman Malik said on Friday. ‘We have some information, but we don’t have material evidence to confirm it.’

Meanwhile, Director General ISPR Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas cautioned that the reports of Mehsud’s death are still unconfirmed. ‘We are receiving reports and probing,’ he said.

ABC News cited a senior US official as saying there was a 95 per cent chance that Mehsud was among those killed in the missile strike. US officials have visual and other indicators it was Mehsud and Pakistanis are now trying to collect physical evidence to be certain, ABC reported. The official would not comment on the circumstances surrounding Mehsud’s possible death.

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We earlier posted that Mehsud’s wife had been killed in an attack from an unmanned US aircraft, which regularly target Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan. A senior Pakistani security official had told media that the target of the strike was the warlord Mehsud. US television quoted unnamed US officials saying there was no physical evidence but there were “indicators” that Mehsud had been killed.The officials said they hoped to secure DNA tests, US television reported. Pakistan on Sunday offered a 615,000-dollar reward for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Mehsud.

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Baitullah Mehsud’s Wife Killed In Drone Attack

by Owais Ehsan on August 5, 2009

The wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was one of three killed on Wednesday in a missile strike by a suspected US drone in South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, a relative said.

‘I confirm that the female that was killed in the strike was the wife of Baitullah Mehsud,’ the relative told Reuters by telephone.

The missile had struck the house of Baitullah Mehsud’s father-in-law An intelligence official told Reuters two militants were killed in the attack. Mehsud’s whereabouts were not known at the time. The relative who spoke to Reuters did not want to be identified.

Source: Reuters

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Obama Choose Pakistani’s as His First Victims for Murder

by MJK on January 25, 2009

Barack Obama and his policy of change won the hearts of millions of Americans and brought him to the White House as 44th American President. As a Pakistani we thought he will be slightly better then his predecessors but i think nothing much will change for Pakistan since the first official blood that was spilled by Barack Obama is that of a Pakistani civilians killed in a drone attack that was directly authorized by his government. So technically speaking, he has started his counter and 6 Innocent Pakistani civilians including children has been the start.

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