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Ilyas Kashmiri was arrested after the December 2003 twin suicide attacks on Gen Musharraf's presidential cavalcade in Rawalpindi, but released a few weeks later due to lack of evidence. He later shifted his base to the Waziristan region and joined...
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To date in Pakistan, we have been able to identify 170 named militants killed by the CIA in more than 300 drone strikes. Among them are many senior figures, including Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Pakistan Taliban; Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaeda linked...
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Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud (L) sits beside a man who is believed to be Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi, the suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan, in this file still image taken from video released January 9, 2010. Intercepted... View Photo »
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Apart from the remnants of the hand grenade, there were no other wounds on the body of Baitullah Mehsud. In almost all drone strikes in Waziristan, the dead bodies are so badly mutilated and disfigured that they can hardly be identified.
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Al-Shabab soldiers on patrol in southern Mogadishu. Photo: Reuters One year after the killing of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda is alive and well. ON SUNDAY afternoon, the US government celebrated what it would no doubt regard as its latest victory in the...
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After the bin Laden raid, Qadir went back to his former comrades, and they introduced him to three of their relatives who had been couriers for Mehsud tribal militant leader Baitullah Mehsud in his contacts with al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman...
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Pakistan Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud (L) is seen with his arm around Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud during a news conference in South Waziristan in this May 24, 2008 file photo. Intercepted militant radio communications indicate Hakimullah, the... View Photo »
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Baitullah Mehsud was not killed in a US drone attack. He was strangled while he was on an intravenous infusion atop the house of his father-in-law. When his wife rushed to the spot, the killers threw a hand grenade that killed her.
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After the death of Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban took his father-in-law Akramud Din into custody and started probing his alleged role in the killing of his son-in-law. Mufti Waliur Rehman, the head of TTP's South Waziristan chapter, kept him in detention...
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The U.S. military, it turned out, had tracked the wrong cellphone for months, mistaking Amanullah for a senior Taliban leader. A year earlier, a drone strike killed Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, while he was visiting his...
About Baitullah Mehsud
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Baitullah Mahsud (Urdu: بیت اللہ محسود ) is a leading tribal militia leader in Waziristan, who, while he is sympathetic to both the Taliban and Al Qaeda, is primarily tribally oriented. Full Article
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Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud (C) sits with other militants in South Waziristan October 4, 2009 in this file video grab taken from footage released October 5, 2009. Intercepted militant radio communications indicate Hakimullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, may have...
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Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud (L) sits beside a man who is believed to be Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi, the suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan, in this file still image taken from video released January 9, 2010. Intercepted militant radio communications indicate...
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Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud (C) sits with other militants in South Waziristan October 4, 2009 in this file video grab taken from footage released October 5, 2009. Intercepted militant radio communications indicate Hakimullah, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, may have...
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