Targetting Taliban Leaders

Pakistani Taliban Leader's Deputy Survives Assassination Attempt -- Long War Journal

One of Baitullah Mehsud's key deputies survived an assassination attempt while traveling home yesterday after attending a Taliban leadership meeting in South Waziristan.

Mullah Noor Sayyed Mehsud was wounded in a roadside bomb attack that killed another Taliban commander named Abdul Malik Shimankhel and wounded another leader. The bomb was detonated as Noor was returning from a meeting that was held in the town of Makeen. The vehicle was "smashed into pieces" by the blast, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

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My Comment: The Pakistani Military and Intelligence services are finally doing something that should have been done a long time before ... target and kill the Taliban leadership.

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