 Qari Hussain, most wanted man associated with banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, has been killed by a US drone strike in North Waziristan, sources confirmed on Friday. | And there was much rejoicing. Well, not by the TTP, but nearly everyone else. |
| So who's the new number three? |
| Patience, my dears. They have to find someone not quite qualified, and then persuade him to accept the promotion, knowing what that entails. This takes more than a few minutes pondering. |
Qari Hussain, who carried a "head money" of Rs50 million, was the main TTP operative who trained children to execute suicide attacks.
Washington Times adds:
 [Qari Hussein] Mehsud has a reputation for being a particularly ruthless terrorist. He cemented this reputation training children as young as 7 years old as suicide bombers.
He ran terror training camps at Spinkai in South Waziristan until they were overrun in Pakistani army operations. He is since believed to have moved his operations to North Waziristan.
Mehsud has been reported to be killed on at least two previous occasions.
He was believed killed in January of 2008 until he appeared at a press conference in the tribal belt along the Pakistan-Afghan border a few weeks later.
The terrorist leader taunted Pakistani officials who had claimed he was dead saying, "I am alive, don't you see me?"
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