Baitullah Mehsud killed? Army declines to confirm

[Naveed Yaseen]

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agents were scrambling on Thursday to determine whether Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife in a US missile strike a day earlier.

A relative of the dead woman, Mehsud’s second wife, said the chieftain was not present when the US drone aircraft fired two missiles at the house of his father-in-law in Makeen, a village in South Waziristan. But rumours swirl that he may have been wounded or killed. Regarded as an ally of Al Qaeda, Mehsud has assembled militants from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, along with Uzbeks and other Central Asian fighters within Al Qaeda’s network. Together with his own men, Mehsud is believed to have over 20,000 fighters with him in South Waziristan. reuters

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp...009_pg7_31