The head of the Taliban in Pakistan, who was linked to the murder of seven CIA agents, has died after being wounded in a US drone attack, according to reports.
Hakimullah Mehsud died of injuries sustained in an air strike in North Waziristan earlier this month, Pakistan’s state television claimed. The state broadcaster also said the leader had been buried in the Pakistani Taliban-controlled area of Orakzai.
It is believed to have played a role in the suicide bombing of a CIA base in Afghanistan in December last year – one of the worst disasters the American secret service has suffered.
[Via Jack Liberty via Barcepundit]
Don’t they all want to be martyrs? We simply obliged.
I’m tempted to say “yay!” But in the long term, it will prove to be a near meaningless victory. In stead of using our intelligence to try and defuse the causes of this conflict. We choose only to devise new ways to kill off a few of its players. Meanwhile replacements are being recruited and trained, every day. Just like our own army. As long as our own pro-war propaganda holds up, for recruiting fresh troops. The enemy’s pro-war propaganda and recruitment, will sustain as well. We’re never going to end these wars, if all we ever do is threaten and kill everyone and anyone who doesn’t give up and/or die, voluntarily.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
another sand knee grow bites the dust