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maybe.

he has had more lives than Morris. Similar reports have proven untrue in the past.

$5 million bounty office for his demise has been around for awhile. Thousands have died under his direction.


5 posted on 11/01/2013 10:57:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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Long War Journal
Bill Roggio

US drone strike targets head of Pakistani Taliban

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/11/us_drone_strikes_tar.php

The US targeted the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in a drone strike today in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike is the second in the tribal agency in three days.

The CIA-operated, remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired a pair of missiles at Hakeemullah’s vehicle as it left a mosque in the village of Danday Darpa Khel in the Miramshah area of North Waziristan, Dawn reported. The strike killed five “militants.”

Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was the target of today’s strike. Hakeemullah’s bodyguard, who was identified as Tariq Mehsud, and his driver, Abdullah Mehsud, are said to be among those killed in today’s attack.

Pakistani intelligence officials are claiming they have confirmed that Hakeemullah was killed in the strike, but officials would not speak on the record, Reuters reported.

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9 posted on 11/01/2013 11:00:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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