“No confirmation”
SNIPPET: “A government official in Peshawar confirmed the drone strike to BBC but said there was no confirmation of Kashmiri’s death.”
Update:
http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/04/ilyas-kashmiri-killed-in-us-drone-strike.html
“Harkatul Jihad al-Islami confirms Ilyas Kashmiri killedAgencies Yesterday”
PHOTO CAPTION: “This file photo taken on July 11, 2001 shows Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, commander-in-chief of the Kashmiri militant group Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, addressing a press conference in Islamabad. — Photo by AFP”
SNIPPET: “ISLAMABAD: A US drone attack that killed nine militants in South Waziristan targeted and killed top al Qaeda commander and chief of the Harkatul Jihad al-Islami (HJI) Ilyas Kashmiri, local officials said Saturday.
Moreover, an HJI spokesman confirmed that Kashmiri had been killed, DawnNews reported.”
SNIPPET: “Pakistani officials said nine militants were killed in the US missile strike on Friday at a compound in the Ghwakhwa area of South Waziristan, a stronghold of al-Qaeda-allied Taliban despite a sweeping Pakistani offensive in 2009.”
The strike is confirmed. I’m gonna assume it did some good regardless of which camelkissingdirtbag it may or may not have killed. At a minimum these strikes clean out the neighborhood by making the survivors, if any, saddle up and scurry for new digs. That exposes them and makes the next strike more certain. Ain’t night vision neat? It also discourages the locals from shielding the Tallybunny types because they sure get tired of patching up the Casbahs.