Pakistani Taliban Confirm Their Leader Hakimullah Mahsud Is Dead

The Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mahsud died from injuries suffered in a US drone attack. ( Chicago Tribune ) Mahsud was engineer of a devastating series of suicide attacks including the attack that killed 7 CIA officials in Afghanistan in December. The LA Times reported, via Free Republic : The Pakistani Taliban confirmed Tuesday that their leader, Hakimullah Mahsud, died from injuries suffered in a U.S. drone missile strike last month, an attack that forces the insurgency to find a new leader for the second time in six months. The death of Mahsud, engineer of a devastating series of suicide attacks and raids on markets, mosques and security installations across Pakistan in the latter half of 2009, gives the U.S.

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Pakistani Taliban Confirm Their Leader Hakimullah Mahsud Is Dead