Pakistan investigates report Taliban chief is dead

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Yahoo News

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistani government was investigating reports Sunday that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike launched in mid-January after he helped orchestrate a deadly bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan.

Mehsud's predecessor was killed in a missile strike less than six months ago, and inflicting another blow to the militant group's leadership would be an important success for both Pakistan and the U.S.

The U.S. unleashed more than a dozen drone strikes in the month following the Dec. 30 suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, and Mehud's death would be further proof of the ability of the unmanned aircraft to target Taliban and al-Qaida leaders holed up in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas.

Pakistani government officials said they were investigating whether Mehsud was mortally wounded in one of those strikes after state television reported that he died in Orakzai, an area in Pakistan's tribal region where he was supposedly being treated for his injuries.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan

[pjt7]

1. Baloney

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/01/reports_of_pakistani.php

[pjt7]

2. Baloney

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/01/reports_of_pakistani.php

[rfranklin]

3. Number 2 is dead! Long live number 2!

Isn't this just like the innumerable "number two" guys that the Bush junta said they killed?

[Zoeisright]

5. +100000

It's exactly the same.

[uberblonde]

4. Were 30 terrorists killed in the attack?

Why, you'd almost think they make this stuff up!

[undeterred]

6. Leader of Pakistani Taliban thought to be dead after U.S. strikes

Source: The Washington Post

By Pamela Constable and Haq Nawaz Khan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 1, 2010

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials said Sunday that they are investigating the reported death of the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, who is notorious for masterminding a series of high-profile bombings including a devastating strike in December against the CIA.

Pakistani state television broadcast news of Hakimullah Mehsud's death and said he had been buried in the Orakzai tribal agency after succumbing to injuries sustained in a U.S. unmanned aerial strike in mid-January. A senior White House official later said he was "95 percent" certain that Mehsud had been killed. But other U.S. officials said the reports still needed to be investigated.

"While I can't confirm reports of Hakimullah's demise, here's to hoping they're true," said a senior U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. "This is one of the worst people on the planet." Pakistani intelligence officials said they had also received reports that Mehsud, the most wanted man in Pakistan, was dead. The senior army spokesman said military officials were "investigating" the reports but had not been able to verify them. The Taliban strenuously denied the claims.

If confirmed, Mehsud's death would be the second major blow to the Taliban, an Islamist militia based in Pakistan's tribal region, in the past six months. The group's original leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a U.S. drone missile attack in August.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013100385.html

[thunder rising]

7. I guess killing "leaders" makes better stories than the umteenth "2nd in command" killings

[babylonsister]

8. Good. One last mastermind to inflict death and destruction. Can

we leave yet?

[SlingBlade]

9. Anyone see the movie, Traitor ?

For some reason I really don't think this will make a rats ass bit of difference other
than pumping up the fucking Jingoistic Fuck Tards.

Can't complain though, And apparently neither can he with all that sex waiting for him
in Paradise :):bounce:

Stupid Fucking Religious Fanatics

[madrchsod]

10. there`s a move up in seniority!