Baitullah Mehsud Killed in US Drone Attack

Perhaps, I do not see it coming. Last Tuesday night was Baitullah Mehsud to drip in a remote farm in the tribal badlands of Pakistan, his second wife at his side, the treatment of a doctor, long buds.

After a couple of Hellfire missiles to blow through the roof, fired from the CIA plane floating in the inky sky. The commander of the Taliban, his wife, brother and several bodyguards were killed, Rehman Malik, Pakistan's Interior Minister said today.

The death of the drone can be silent, but news of the disappearance, according to Mehsud has been hailed as a signal victory for Pakistan in the fight against violent extremism rocky. The border was a warrior, priest, head of the suicide bombers, Mehsud had been mainly in Pakistan that Osama bin Laden, and she feared that the Iraqi insurgents, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed two years ago.

"This is an obstacle to the Taliban," said Brigadier Mehmood Shah, former chief of security in the tribal areas.

His death is also impressed by the strike of American high-tech, low risk of war in the tribal belt of Pakistan. Faced with an isolated increase in the tax base in western Pakistan, the drone pilots would sit in the U. S. Air Force in the Nevada desert, thousands of kilometers.

But while it looks like a computer game for the season, the most recent attack was trembling repercussions far beyond the strike site.

Mehsud, as the reports on the elimination of filtration and gunfight between Mehsud and a rival loyalist group occurred in the town next to the tank, so that at least 14 people were killed. In the capital, Islamabad, police chief of increased security, fear of retaliations from the legion of suicide bombers, the reputation of Mehsud.

And somewhere deep inside Waziristan, a meeting of key members of Mehsud is to determine who is his successor as head of the Taliban, Pakistan Tehrik me (TTP), the most powerful militant from Pakistan.

Mehsud was dead speculation began last night, when White House officials told journalists on "convincing evidence that" the leader of Taliban were killed. Today lunch confirm qualified staff began to appear.

"He was out," said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, noting that "100 percent confirmation was unable to forensic team arrived at the scene.

But Senior Assistant Mehsud, Kafayat Ullah confirmed Mehsud and his wife were killed in the absence of information. Pakistani TV channel quoted a source said that they were buried in Narkosai, a small village not far from the strike site.

For the first time, the Pakistanis saw a man who was to follow as the station to air photos of the face that Mehsud was suppressed after the Taliban threat.

In Washington, White House Representative Robert Gibbs declined to confirm the death, but is a "growing consensus among observers that it is true, in fact, dead."

This was the culmination of a long chase by Pakistani and U.S. troops. Nine out of 10 strikes in the United States Buzz Mehsud tribal belt of Pakistan presided over the network. In March, United States - to $ 5 million of wealth in his head, and Pakistan have $ 650,000. The guarantee was issued by the Pakistani army, mobilizing troops and tanks on the border of the mountain fortress Mehsud over the last six weeks in preparation for a possible attack.

Strike the end of a career, which is short as it was brutal. Mehsud, 39, rose to importance in 2005 after signing a controversial peace treaty with the Pakistani army. Slightly more than two years later, the emir, or commander of the TTP, time to restore the confidence of some 14 militant groups in the tribal belt.

Mehsud is the Public Enemy Number One, disgusting and terrifying Pakistanis with the relentless wave of suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of soldiers, police officers and civilians. Nevertheless, he claims the CIA was responsible for the notorious bombing - in the December 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Group of the UN investigation into the killing.

Mehsud is estimated up to 20,000 fighters under their control. Their power was in connection with a high degree of support for al-Qaida figures - Arab refugees, and hundreds of ethnic Uzbek militia - price reductions in South Waziristan.

Currently, the Taliban is dominated by two rival commanders - Qari Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan Maulvi Nazir in South Waziristan - have lower public, with an emphasis on cross-border incursions into Afghanistan, where elections are held in less than two weeks.