Posted on 07/24/2007 8:02:30 AM PDT by STARWISE
A former Guantanamo Bay inmate who led pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan after his release died Tuesday when he blew himself up with a grenade to avoid arrest, police said.
The death of Abdullah Mehsud is a boost for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who faces growing U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants battling security forces on both sides of the Afghan border.
Mehsud, who led pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan after his release, died on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 when he blew himself up with a grenade to avoid arrest. Armed intelligence agents cornered Mehsud and three other men at the house of a leader of an Islamist political party in the southwestern town of Zhob, police officials said.
Mehsud, who led pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan after his release, died on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 when he blew himself up with a grenade to avoid arrest. Armed intelligence agents cornered Mehsud and three other men at the house of a leader of an Islamist political party in the southwestern town of Zhob, police officials said.
Intelligence agents cornered Mehsud overnight at the home of an Islamist politician in Zhob, police said. The town is 160 miles from the southwestern city of Quetta.
"My information is that Abdullah Mehsud killed himself," Zhob Police Chief Atta Mohammed told The Associated Press. "Thanks be to God that only he was blown up and our men were safe."
Federal Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema confirmed Mehsud's death, but provided no details.
U.S.-allied Afghan forces captured Mehsud, who earlier lost a leg fighting for the Taliban, in northern Afghanistan in December 2001. He was held at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and it remains unclear why he was released in March 2004.
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Abdullah Mehsud, left, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, talks on his walky-talkie as his body guard looks on near Chagmalai in South Waziristan along Afghanistan border in this Oct 14, 2004 file photo. Mehsud, who led pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan after his release, died on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 when he blew himself up with a grenade to avoid arrest.
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One less brutal monster ...
According to the democrats thee are only inocent kids in Gitmo...Oh I get it we turned him into a militant leader....
PING !
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Do we even need the quote any more?
Ditto.
Exactly correct! These scumbags are being denied their rights in Gitmo. Poor dears.
So, if you blow yourself up with a grenade, what does Allah get for you? 77 virgin bandages?
Of course it would have been somehow evil for us to put him in front of both a military tribunal and then the firing squad if found guilty...
In other words, no casualties.
Ted Kennedy was overheard saying to Harry Reid this morning; "This terrorist would still be alive today if we hadn't sprung him from Gitmo, we should take the credit for his death".
Bubb-bye Abdullah.
LEt that be a lesson to those who think they want to leave Gitmo:)
I'm having a real problem with that whole concept.
"A former German POW who led a Gestapo unit after his release ..."
"A former Japanese POW who led a kamikaze squad after his release ..."
Maybe it’ll catch on.
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