In this made from video taken on May 24, 2008, Pakistan's top Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, right, talks to the media in Kotkai, a village in the Pakistani tribal area along the Afghan border. According to Kafayat Ullah, a Taliban commander and aide to Mehsud, Friday Aug. 7, 2009, Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, was killed in a U.S. missile strike on Wednesday Aug. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/APTN)From Yahoo News/AP:
ISLAMABAD – A Taliban spokesman and a deputy to Baitullah Mehsud claimed Saturday that the Pakistani Taliban chief was not killed by a CIA missile strike, contradicting another aide who confirmed Mehsud's death a day earlier.
The claims, made in calls to Pakistani and international media organizations, could undermine the growing confidence among U.S. and Pakistani officials that Mehsud died. They also could be tactical maneuvers to prevent defections as the Taliban leadership searches for a successor to Mehsud or even to delay a decision on naming an heir.
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My Comment: For the past two hours I have been reading and collecting over 20 news links that discuss and analyze the missile strike that successfully killed him .... and the impact that his death will have on the Taliban movement in Pakistan .... and we now have this report that he is alive.
Someone .... somewhere .... has a sense of humor.
If he is alive, he will either make an announcement very soon (the next few days) .... or he will go into hiding and make an announcement in the near future (i.e. in a few weeks). The only thing that we can do now is wait and see.