Pakistan - A Taliban leader commits suicide with hand grenade as troops storm hideout

AFP via translation | July 24, 2007

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via translation -

ALARM - a leader Pakistani taliban commits suicide during an attack of the army

ISLAMABAD - One of the principal leaders of the talibans Pakistani committed suicide Monday evening while exploding a grenade when the army took by storm its hiding-place in the south-west of Pakistan, announced Tuesday the ministry for the Interior.

[bajabaja]

I will drink to that. (Yeah, I know better, but heck.)

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Pro-Taliban Pakistani tribesman cornered, killed

ISLAMABAD, July 24 (Reuters) - A leading pro-Taliban tribesman was killed after being surrounded by Pakistani forces near the Afghan border, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said on Tuesday.

Abudullah Mehsud was released from the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in 2004. Later that year he kidnapped two Chinese engineers working in South Waziristan, a region known as a hotbed of support for al Qaeda and the Taliban.

"He was killed in a house in Zhob, where he was staying with three comrades," the Interior Ministry spokesman said, referring to a district of southwest Baluchistan province neighbouring Waziristan.

According to officials in Baluchistan, Mehsud blew himself up to avoid arrest, and his three comrades were captured. He was second in command of a Pakistani Taliban group headed by Baitullah Mehsud. Their followers often sneaked across the border to attack U.S., NATO and Afghan forces.

[Cindy]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&resnum=0&q=%22Abdullah+Mehsud%22&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

[jws3sticks]

One hand grandee and one jerk done, and lots of hand grenades and many jerks to go. Great pressure. Go get them all!

[jws3sticks]

I meant grenade. Sorry for the spelling.

[Pro-Bush]

I guess he had enough of gitmo, lol!

[LeoWindhorse]

the food at Gitmo was that bad ,eh....

Proof of torture !

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Zhob: wanted militant Abdullah Mehsud blows himself up ZHOB: The law enforcement officials raided a house of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) official in district Zhob of Balochistan and captured three men for alleged links with Taliban, while militant leader Abdullah Mehsud, blew himself up to avoid arrest.

Federal Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema Tuesday confirmed Mehsud's death. He was wanted for the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in 2004, he said.

Abdullah Mehsud killed himself with a hand grenade when law enforcement officials raided house of JUI district secretary Shaikh Ayub in Ganj Mohalla in Zhob.

"Abdullah Mehsud blew himself up with a grenade and died when forces raided his hideout. Three of his accomplices were arrested for suspected links with Taliban," said Atta Mohammed, police chief of Zhob.

``Thanks be to God that our men were safe,'' he said.

The arrested men have been shifted to an unknown place for investigations, officials said.

[txhurl]

Looks gay from here.

[SIDENET]

I just want to know how he got that goofy little hat to stay perched on the back of his head.

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Looks like he needs some shampoo.

[ArmstedFragg]

This is a guy who was let loose by one of those military tribunals that the left has been claiming are too mean to terrorists.

[ChiMark]

The supreme irony is that he escaped that awful torture of
panties on his head... then he blew it clean off!

Heck, with their kind of strategy this will be a boon to
our side. Let’s hope that these ignorant slobs will
eat the pineapple.

[Finalapproach29er]

Use drones armed with Hellfire missles next time.

Are there any “innocent” among the Taliban?

[Finalapproach29er]

They all look that way. lol

[Gorzaloon]

Abdullah Mehsud blew himself up with a grenade and died

I wish these guys would use bicycle pumps instead. It would take longer and be quieter.

Pump Pump Pump Pump Pump Pump Pump Pump Pump

*Splut*

[Cap Huff]

FYI

[6SJ7]

Abdullah Mehsud blew himself up with a grenade and died when forces raided his hideout.

Thank you for smoking!

[reagan_fanatic]

I hear that cleaning up the remains with porkfat makes the job easier.