Baitullah Mehsud

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• US missiles hit Mehsud's hideouts: 16 killed

  A US missile strike pulverised a compound in a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud yesterday, killing 16 foreign and local militants, security officials said.

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• Pak Taliban claim NY attack responsibility

  Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud yesterday claimed responsibility for a shooting incident at an immigration services office in New York, which claimed 14 lives.

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• Militants say Mehsud alive

  A Taliban spokesman and a deputy to Baitullah Mehsud claimed yesterday that the Pakistani Taliban chief was not killed by a CIA missile strike, contradicting another aide who confirmed Mehsud's death a day earlier.

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• Pak Taliban chief Mehsud 'killed'

  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 US missile strike, a militant commander and aide to Mehsud said yesterday.

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• 17 killed as US missiles hit Mehsud's Pak hideout

  US missiles yesterday slammed into the hideout of a Pakistani Taliban commander allied to warlord Baitullah Mehsud in the tribal belt, killing at least 17 people, intelligence officials said.

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Latest News From Around The World

• The Bend Bulletin

  Critics take aim at CIA’s Panetta over more drone strikes

  The plan was a standard one in the CIA’s war against extremists in Pakistan: The agency was using a Predator drone to monitor a residential compound; a Taliban leader was expected to arrive shortly; a CIA missile would kill him.On the morning of Au

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• Webindia123

  Pak police nabs Baitullahs close aide from Karachi

  An anti-extremist cell (AEC) of the Pakistan police has claimed nabbing a close aide of the killed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud from Karachi.

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• Free Internet Press

  Killer App - Drones Are Lynchpin In Obama's War On Terror

  CIA drones are killing terrorists - and civilians - in Pakistan almost every day. The unmanned aircraft are becoming the weapon of choice in the fight against al-Qaeda and its allies. But the political, military and moral consequences are incalculabl

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• Webindia123

  Mullah Omars spokesman, top Pak-Taliban operative arrested in Karachi

  A spokesman of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar and a former aide of slain Pak Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud have reportedly been arrested in Karachi during a raid carried out by Pakistani intelligence agencies.

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• Newstrack India

  Mullah Omar's spokesman, top Pak-Taliban operative arrested in Karachi

  Karachi, Mar. 1 (ANI): A spokesman of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar and a former aide of slain Pak Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud have reportedly been arrested in Karachi during a raid carried out by Pakistani intelligence agencies.

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