Baitullah Mehsud is being blamed for most of the suicide bombings in Pakistan, including Benazir Bhutto's assassination. The rise of a militant leader.

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 ...

With Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud dead, why can't the U.S. be similarly successfully with their quest to kill Osama bin Laden?

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 ...

Baitullah Mehsud, unlike other militant leaders, made the Pakistan government his target, using suicide attacks and assassinations to shake the foundations of this country.

Without ever firing a shot at Americans, Baitullah Mehsud had become an obsession for the CIA. Over 18 months, the agency tried three times to kill the stout, 5-foot-2-inch commander ...

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 from a recent Taliban video. Baitullah Mehsud, the Leader of Pakistan’s unified Taliban movement, threatened to attack the US and took credit for three recent attacks in Pakistan, ...

On February 20, the New York Times published an article claiming that U.S. airstrikes against Taliban supremo Baitullah Mehsud inside Pakistan's tribal areas were a "broadening of the American ...