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| Pakistan Taliban says Hakimullah Mehsud injured in attack |
| 2010-01-15 |
| Pray for sepsis. The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was wounded in a suspected U.S. drone strike Thursday, intelligence and Taliban sources told CNN Friday. A Taliban spokesman denied Thursday and again Friday that Mehsud was hurt. The spokesman, Azam Tariq, said Mehsud had left the site of the attack -- a converted religious school -- before the missiles struck. He dismissed reports of an injury to Mehsud as propaganda. Other Taliban and intelligence sources, however, said doctors were treating Mehsud for wounds he sustained in the drone strike. The drone attack killed 10 people, with four missiles landing near a madrassa, or religious school, Pakistani intelligence and local officials said Thursday. The school had been converted into a training camp for militants, the officials said. The strike happened in the village of Pasal Kot. That's in North Waziristan, part of Pakistan's volatile tribal region that is the site of previous drone strikes and clashes between the Pakistani military and Islamic militants. It comes a few days after Mehsud appeared in a video the Pakistani Taliban released. In it, he sits next to Human Khlalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and a Jordanian army captain at a base in eastern Afghanistan on December 30. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #5 Sepsis would be nice, big piece of shrapnel in the groin with femoral artery involvement good also... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-01-15 16:07 |
| #4 Well said, gentlemen. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-15 14:09 |
| #3 That may well be true Glenmore , but these guys aint too keen on staying in one spot for too long (for obvious reasons) which begs the question , did the information on his whereabouts come from the ISI/ other pak assets or was it 'our boys' rolling on what they knew Now if doctors are treating him ,he is hurt , and hurt reasonably badly imho . And if they are then some intel community knows exactly where he is . |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-15 13:06 |
| #2 My bet is the intel was available since before the al-Balawi attack, but now there is both more will and more urgency to hit back. (Many of our intel assets may not be fully usable any more, so we have to roll up who we can, while we can.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-01-15 13:00 |
| #1 Excellent news. Taking into account the sad loss of intelligence from the al-balawi attack, its suprising how fast the information on his whereabouts was gleaned, processed and acted on . Good work field operators |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-15 12:40 |