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Top Taliban leader in Pakistan dies of kidney failure
Denver News.Net
Tuesday 30th September, 2008
According to CNN, the leader of Pakistan's Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, has died from kidney failure.
Islamabad-based sources, with connections in South Waziristan, confirmed Mehsud had died early on Wednesday morning.
Mehsud led thousands of militants in South Waziristan, the mountainous region of northwest Pakistan that borders Afghanistan.
It is the region where the Taliban and al Qaeda are most active.
The Pakistan government blamed Mehsud for the December 27, 2007, assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
In his first television interview, conducted by Al-Jazeera last year, Mehsud said his ultimate aim was to attack New York and London, England.
In January, Spanish police said they had arrested a cell of Pakistanis in Barcelona.
They said the men had allegedly been dispatched by Mehsud, who was planning suicide operations in Spain and possibly elsewhere in Europe.
Mehsud's death is now expected to spark a power struggle and the appointment of a new Taliban leader in Pakistan.
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101st AA
09-30-08, 09:00 PM |
Top Taliban leader in Pakistan dies of kidney failure
Good riddance.One less fanatic and more fertilizer.
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Datu Lukban
10-01-08, 03:49 AM |
Another evil beat the dust. As we know sometimes life is just a passing rain.We can not live forever.Do good thing coming from your heart and you will live forever. I salut those people who work hard for humanity ,like the doctors with out border.
and many more that I could mention.
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