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2012-01-15 India-Pakistan

Tolo News reports: Hakimullah Mehsud Killed in Pakistan

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Posted by 2012-01-15 12:59|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 The reason they complain so bitterly about our drone strikes, is because they work!

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2012-01-15 13:09|| 2012-01-15 13:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-15 15:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Can we get one of the drones to pi$$ on him somehow?

Posted by gorb 2012-01-15 15:55|| 2012-01-15 15:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-15 16:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-15 16:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd like to play "Deuling Accordians" with the accordian lady.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2012-01-15 17:03|| 2012-01-15 17:03|| Front Page Top

#7 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|| 2012-01-15 19:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2012-01-15 22:33|| Front Page Top

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