Posted on 08/08/2009 6:43:08 PM PDT by Jay777
A Taliban leader with a $5 million American reward on his head is thought to be dead from an drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan, but a friend says that report is “ridiculous.” Baitullah Mehsud is alive, or he may be dead. See update below.
Members of the Mehsud tribe consider Baitullah Mehsud their leader. He is believed to command as many as 20,000 Taliban. So far, reports of his probable death by drone strike have not been disproved. In other words, he has sent no message to prove that he is alive and the West has no concrete evidence that he was hit in the strike but have said they are increasingly confident that they got him, this time.
That confidence may come from the fact that the drone hit the home of Baitullah Mehsud’s father-in-law’s home. One report says one of his aides told the AP by phone that he died along with his wife, or at least his “second” wife. In another, the aide is quoted, as well as a local tribesman saying he attended the funeral. Odd that the AP can ring-up the Taliban on one of the harshest battlefields in the world but allied forces cannot follow the pings to take them out.
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Sent to be with his 72 Helen Thomas clones.
He better be dead or those two Taliban morons that were wanting his job killed each other for no reason yesterday. Oh well.
Isn’t this the kind of thing Pelosi wants investigated?
Houston Taliban Supporter Get 4 1/2 Years
Islam in Action | August 8Th, 2009 | Christopher Logan
Posted on 08/08/2009 5:43:05 PM PDT by Islaminaction
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2311669/posts
Why would anyone trust an aide to the enemy? If this guy were dead we wouldn’t hear a word from his buddies. If he wanted to hide from future smart bombs, he would promote the fiction that he was dead. If he wanted to rub our faces in it, he would entice us to send in Special Forces to confirm the fact and then ambush them.
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