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Updated: Aug. 25, 2009 Baitullah Mehsud, the supreme leader of Pakistan's feared Taliban movement and the country's No. 1 enemy, is believed to have been killed on Aug. 5, 2009, in a ="More ...
Baitullah Mehsud is being blamed for most of the suicide bombings in Pakistan, including Benazir Bhutto's assassination. The rise of a militant leader.
Baitullah Mehsud, as his name suggests, belonged to the Mehsud tribe in Pakistan's troubled South Waziristan region. After 9/11 he grew in strength and stature and was said to command as many as ...
If Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban's most dangerous and powerful leader, was indeed killed by a U.S. Predator drone strike earlier this week, the biggest loser of all may be Osama bin ...
Still, in the often shaky counterterrorism alliance between the United States and Pakistan, Mehsud was an easy target. Picture two circles, with America’s greatest enemies in one and Pakistan ...
Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan’s most powerful Taliban commander. Baitullah is the leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the unified command of scores of ...
Unmanned American missile reportedly targeted Baitullah Mehsud himself. August 5, 2009— -- A CIA drone strike killed the wife of Pakistan's most wanted man today, according to local ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 7, 2009 — -- Pakistan's most wanted man, Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a CIA drone strike Wednesday morning, according to U.S., Pakistani, and Taliban ...
As information poured in on Friday that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed two days ago by a U.S. missile strike, a whole series of questions arise over what it would mean for ...
Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, has been killed in a U.S. missile strike, a militant ...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani officials said Wednesday that a U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan had killed a wife of top Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.. Mehsud ...