Posted on 08/07/2009 3:37:32 PM PDT by myknowledge
Reports from Pakistan say one of the country's most-wanted Taliban leaders is dead — killed by a rocket attack from a U.S. drone.
If confirmed, the death of Baitullah Mehsud could be a significant blow to the Islamist militants linked under his umbrella group, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
"There's every indication that it is true," says Daniel Markey, an expert on South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. "And it could be quite significant."
Markey says Mehsud was "above all, the face of the Pakistani Taliban, which was becoming a more serious collective organization, one that U.S. officials saw as being more closely tied to foreign fighters and al-Qaida."
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Once again, you can pick your wives, pick your bodyguards, but you can't pick your relatives...and once they figure out who your relatives are...you're screwed...
Your taxpayers dollars at work.
Dead, just like osama is.
Dead, just like osama is.
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