Fellow commander says Taliban leader Mehsud dead

US Drone kills Baitullah

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A commander from Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud’s group says Mehsud was killed in a U.S. missile strike earlier this week.

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Baitullah Mehsud killed in Pakistan: Reports

Baitullah: The leader of TTP

ISLAMABAD, Aug 7  – There is a strong likelihood that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a missile attack two days ago, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.

“We suspect he was killed in the missile strike,” Malik said on Friday. “We have some information, but we don’t have material evidence to confirm it.”