How was taliban leader baitullah mehsud killed?”
The Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a CIA missile strike, a senior Taliban commander said today. Kafayat Ullah, an aide to Mehsud, told the Associated Press news agency that Mehsud and his second wife were killed in Wednesday’s missile attack in South Waziristan. He would not provide any further details. Mehsud is said to have died when a drone plane fired two Hellfire missiles at a remote farmhouse where he was sheltering, early on Wednesday. The death of Mehsud would represent a quantum leap for Pakistan’s war against the rampaging Islamist militancy based in the tribal belt along the Afghan border. Earlier this morning there were counter claims that Mehsud was injured but alive. In Washington, White House officials told reporters there were “strong indications” Mehsud was dead. Pakistani television channels, quoting intelligence sources, said he had already been buried in his home village, Narkosa, near the strike site. The Pakistani interior minister, Rehman
Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud likely has been killed in a U.S. drone attack The unmanned aerial vehicle targeted the home of Mehsud’s father-in-law, Mulvi Ikram ud Din, and dropped two missiles on the residence in northwestern Pakistan, an intelligence official said. Mehsud’s second wife was one of two people killed in the strike, according to the sources. Four others were wounded, they said.
