Betullah Mehsud still alive, claims close aide.Byline: ANI London, Aug. 8 (ANI): A lieutenant of Pakistan's enemy no. 1 Baitullah Mehsud Baitullah Mehsud is a leading Taliban commander in Waziristan.[1][2] The Waziris are a tribe whose home spans the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. The Mahsud are one of the four sub-tribes of the Waziri. on Saturday rejected reports of the Pak-Taliban chief's death in a US drone strike. BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. quoted Commander Hakimullah Mehsud - who some analysts suggest may be positioning himself to succeed Baitullah Mehsud - as saying that the reports of Mehsud's death were the work of US and Pakistani intelligence agencies. "The news regarding our respected chief is propaganda by our enemies. We know what our enemies want to achieve - it's the joint policy of the ISI ISI International Sensitivity Index, see there and FBI - they want our chief to come out in the open so they can achieve their target," Mehsud said. He said the Pakistani leader had decided to adopt the tactics of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. and stay silent. He said he would issue a message in the next few days. The US has said that it is increasingly confident that its forces had managed to kill Mehsud, while Pakistan's foreign minister said on Friday he was "pretty certain" Baitullah Mehsud had been killed. Neither side has provided evidence to back up their claims so far. The missile fired by the US drone hit the home of the Taliban chief's father-in-law, Malik Ikramuddin, in the Zangarha area on Wednesday. On Friday, another of Baitullah Mehsud's aides had told the press by telephone that his leader had been killed along with his second wife in the attack. The White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs Robert Gibb RSA (28 October 1845 - 11 February 1932) was a Scottish painter who was Keeper of the National Gallery of Scotland from 1895 to 1907 and was Painter and Limner to the King from 1908 until his death. , on Friday said that the Pakistani people would be safer if he was dead. "There seems to be a growing consensus among credible observers that he is indeed dead," he told reporters. Believed to command as many as 20,000 pro-Taliban militants, Mehsud came to worldwide attention in the aftermath of the 2007 Red Mosque siege in Islamabad. He has been blamed by both Pakistan and the US for a series of suicide bomb attacks in the country, as well as suicide attacks suicide attack suicide n → Selbstmordanschlag m on Western forces across the border in Afghanistan. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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