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India-Pakistan
Tolo News reports: Hakimullah Mehsud Killed in Pakistan
2012-01-15
This is the second report posted. Nonetheless, the 48 Hour Rule Holds, so no ululating or fat ladies singing just yet. After all, such people have died before, only to be found wandering the landscape just in time to be killed a second or third time.
But we'll keep the Accordion Lady on stage...
Leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, may have been killed in a US drone attack, Pakistani media reported.

Pakistani TV channel, Geo News reported that Hakimullah Mehsud has died in a US drone attack on January 12.

Pakistani intelligence officials have said that they have intercepted radio communications of Pakistani Taliban discussing if their leader had died in a US attack on January 12. The death may have occurred in North Waziristan.

In the intercepted communications some Taliban militants have confirmed the death and some have criticised them for talking about it on the radio. Pakistani Taliban have denied reports about Mesud's death, according to Geo TV.
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#8  I'd like to play "Deuling Accordians" with the accordian lady.

Mama's got a squeezebox!
Posted by: gorb   2012-01-15 22:33  

#7  Â I don't mean to be a negative Nancy, but aren't there many more Mehsuds to take his place?

And even more Mehsudullahs, RandomJD. But generally not as well trained as the first generation, or with the Rolodex and personal followers. In Iraq we got inside their training cycle, so the new Number Three was less capable of organizing, managing, and training those below until the organization collapsed. I think it was Newsweek that had an article recently about empty Taliban training camps, with so many dead that the rest were afraid to continue. It was sometime last year or the year before that Strategy Page wrote about how many jihadis we've killed in Iraq and Af-Pak, and it was in the tens of thousands in each arena -- not much in terms of total population, but significant relative to trained cadres. I'm sorry I can't give the links, but I somehow misplaced them.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-01-15 19:50  

#6  I'd like to play "Deuling Accordians" with the accordian lady.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2012-01-15 17:03  

#5  Just tell them where some of the chips in both the drone and the missile were developed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-01-15 16:45  

#4  I bet we could put a small tub of pig fat into the missle mikey. Or at least spread the rumor we did.
Posted by: Charles   2012-01-15 16:43  

#3  Can we get one of the drones to pi$$ on him somehow?
Posted by: gorb   2012-01-15 15:55  

#2  I don't mean to be a negative Nancy, but aren't there many more Mehsuds to take his place?
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-01-15 15:21  

#1  The reason they complain so bitterly about our drone strikes, is because they work!
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2012-01-15 13:09  

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