Ex-Guantanamo inmate blows himself up to avert arrest in Pakistan
Ap, Quetta
A former Guantanamo Bay inmate who led pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan after his release died Tuesday when police said he blew himself up with a grenade to avoid arrest. Armed intelligence agents cornered Abdullah Mehsud and three other men at the house of a leader of an Islamist political party in the southwestern town of Zhob, police officials said. "My information is that Abdullah Mehsud killed himself," Zhob police chief Atta Mohammed told The Associated Press. "Thanks be to God that only he was blown up and our men were safe." Federal Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema confirmed Mehsud's death, but provided no details. The one-legged militant was released from the US jail for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March 2004 after he was captured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban.
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