Pakistani Taliban Confirm Their Leader Hakimullah Mahsud Is Dead
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 4:36 AM
The Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mahsud died from injuries suffered in a US drone attack. (Chicago Tribune)
Mahsud was engineer of a devastating series of suicide attacks including the attack that killed 7 CIA officials in Afghanistan in December.
The LA Times reported, via Free Republic:
The Pakistani Taliban confirmed Tuesday that their leader, Hakimullah Mahsud, died from injuries suffered in a U.S. drone missile strike last month, an attack that forces the insurgency to find a new leader for the second time in six months.
The death of Mahsud, engineer of a devastating series of suicide attacks and raids on markets, mosques and security installations across Pakistan in the latter half of 2009, gives the U.S. another major victory in its ongoing campaign of drone missile strikes against top Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders.
A drone strike last August killed Mahsud’s predecessor, Baitullah Mahsud. Missiles fired by drones over Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghan border have also killed 15 senior Al Qaeda commanders since 2004.
However, experts do not expect the loss of Hakimullah Mahsud, 28, to deal a fatal blow to the Taliban as it battles the government in the country’s northwest.
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Andreas K. commented:
See, this is why I love robotics.
It might not be a fatal blow, but it’s one less a*****e to deal with. And that’s good.
Opus #6 commented:
Well done, American military!
squeaky commented:
last week it was reported that the same hit killed hakimullah’s likely successor and another was missing…… you’d think they’d check the
retirement package before agreeing to the
employment contract…..
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Marsh commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My7lQp1ysGQ
BigAlSouth commented:
The drones are controlled by a joystick operator somewhere in Colorado. The operator zaps a Jihadi on the other side of the world.
Now, that’s “Projection of American Power” that we can all get behind. (Except for the anti-American Commie ACLU)
Corporal Vere commented:
Note: to President Obama.
Giving you credit here for correctly doing one work task in your first 381 days in your new job. We can’t hardly wait another 380 days for your next achievement.
On-the-job training is hard, right?
You need to do more Taliban outreach like this, and reach out and touch more good* Talibans.
* 0: The only good Taliban I ever saw was dead.
squeaky commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXPisSSiCo4
Warthog commented:
It’s as Sun Tzu said,
“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. To blast them with flying, killer-robots is pretty cool, though.”
(No, he said that, really…)
Chisum commented:
Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.
Warning: Language
http://foxteethonline.blogspot.com/2010/01/little-tension-reliever-from-scotland.html
TJ commented:
Note to the LA Times… please drop the designation “engineer” from the description of terrorists.
I’m an engineer and I resent the misuse of the word.
Engineers have invented/created/designed most of the modern creature comforts Western society now enjoys.
I propose they instead use the word “lawyer”. Laywers do things to make us uncomfortable, anxious, and worried. In the case of the ACLU they tear away symbols of our faith that comfort us during times of joy and times of need.
Yes… Mahsud, lawyer of a series of devastating suicide attacks..
It really does sound much better!
bg commented:
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woot!! another one bites the dust.. thumbsup!!
however, that the killing of one (fitb) by a
drone under an OA is considered a victory..
but taking down a tyrannical regime, warding off
AQ & liberating over 25 million Muslims in Iraq is
still fodder for the lying (fitb) hirabi prez et al..
is an outrage..
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Solaratov commented:
bg
February 9th, 2010 | 4:50 pm | #16
Absolutely correct. But the one [fitb] was killed on d’ohbama’s watch — and the liberation of the Iraqi people on GWBush’s.
Which one do you really think is going to be hailed by the msm?