Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Taliban admit Baitullah Mehsud killed



DERA ISMAIL KHAN :APP - The Pakistani Taliban acknowledged on Tuesday that the militants' top leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was dead, ending weeks of claims and counterclaims over his fate following a US missile strike on his father-in-law's home this month. Two of Mehsud's top aides, Hakimullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman, called The Associated Press on Tuesday evening to say that he had died Sunday of wounds from the August 5 strike near the Afghan border

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