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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 08 > U.S. confident Pakistani Taliban chief is dead

U.S. confident Pakistani Taliban chief is dead

By Pir Zubair Shah, Sabrina Tavernise and Mark Mazzetti / The Bulletin
August 8, 2009

ISLAMABAD " U.S. and Pakistani officials said Friday they were increasingly convinced that a U.S. drone strike two days earlier had killed Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan's enemy No. 1 and the leader of its Taliban movement.

While Mehsud was a pivotal figure who held together the loose and....

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