Taliban Leader in Pakistan Killed by US Drone Attack

Published on January 31st, 2010

Posted by Cherman in international, military

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]

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# 1 jescott418 said, on January 31st, 2010 at 6:12 am

Nice shooting! I was amazed at the Drone’s abilities. I saw a news report where it was directly overhead of a reporter and it had a good camera angle on her. But she could not see or hear it overhead. So I bet the Taliban never saw it coming.

# 2 Dallas said, on January 31st, 2010 at 6:24 am

Obama knows how to fight a strategic war. Wow.

Unlike President Cheney’s use of B52 carpet bombings with Napalm, this administration knows this enemy needs to be dealt with the use of surgical strikes with advanced American military know-how.

# 3 rudedog said, on January 31st, 2010 at 6:41 am

#2 I never new Cheney carpet bombed Pakistan? You learn something new every day.. LOL

# 4 RBG said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:14 am

2 Dallas. If only Bush had a great Secretary of Defense like Obama.

RBG

# 5 Dallas said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:18 am

#4 I agree

# 6 pedro said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:29 am

#5 Sheeple!

# 7 Loose Stool With Cheese said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:41 am

Yeah, it’s amazing there were no surgical strikes until the Messiah took office.

# 8 Jägermeister said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:43 am

From Times Online:

A local tribal leader said Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in the early-morning raid, but the Taleban insisted he was still alive.

So… to settle this, let Hakimullah comment on current events.

# 9 Nappy Headed Ho said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:52 am

Those guys behind him would stand out like a sore thumb at an airport.

/just saying

# 10 Jägermeister said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:53 am

#7 – Loose Stool With Cheese

Bush and Cheney made sure to pick their targets.

# 11 Jägermeister said, on January 31st, 2010 at 7:54 am

#9 – Nappy Headed Ho

LMAO

# 12 Rezyde said, on January 31st, 2010 at 8:01 am

These guys are trash and it’s nice to see the drone is doing its job.

# 13 Nappy Headed Ho said, on January 31st, 2010 at 8:02 am

#7 – Cheese, surgical strikes don’t really kill enough bystanders. Carpet bombs are less expensive and increase the butt pucker factor.

/again, just saying
//I have nothing against carpet.

# 14 bobbo, your own interest can be short term and different in the long term said, on January 31st, 2010 at 8:11 am

Well this just and only demonstrates what an evil socialist Obama is. He fails to endlessly drone on (hee, hee) about how wonderful the USA is and how we are at war and going to fight for freedom.

How will the world fear us if we don’t constantly talk it up? Be PROUD of killing people and other good repuglican Bush base type stuff?

I can smell the tea being brewed from here.

# 15 Nappy Headed Ho said, on January 31st, 2010 at 8:17 am

#14 – I’m proud that we got this guy and if we kill everyone around him it will send a message to militants and citizens alike not to hang around them.

Now if we missed this asswipe, I can only hope the TSA fucks up and ‘ol Hac here winds up on your flight.

# 16 bobbo, your own interest can be short term and different in the long term said, on January 31st, 2010 at 8:29 am

#15–Nappy==of course you are proud. All we have to do is kill enough people and everyone will agree we are right.

Aren’t we on the same side here?

# 17 Winston said, on January 31st, 2010 at 8:53 am

Taliban sub-leader says, “I’m moving up!” The other 1000 in line say the same while “collateral damage” incites more to join the queue.

# 18 Greg Allen said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:04 am

War SUCKS at fighting terrorism.

Yes, you can kill a few but you just breed more in the process.

# 19 Awake said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:16 am

Didn’t we just kill a guy in this leadership position last month? And the month before? And the month before? The Taliban and Alqaeda are guerrillas, and can’t really be decapitated.

Funding keeps them going. Take away their funding and the whole thing falls apart. And where does their funding come from? Yes, you know the answer already. Our ‘allies’ in the Middle East.

# 20 zorkor said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:17 am

Good Riddance!!

# 21 pedro said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:43 am

#20 Don’t you mean death to amerika?

# 22 bobsyeruncle said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:48 am

@19/Awake.

funding… fundamentalist… I get it…

Sure – $ probably brings some action items on their corporate whiteboards into better focus. However, I seriously doubt that $ is the motivating factor for any of the grrrrrr-illas we’ve come to know and love.

# 23 RBG said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:49 am

17 Winston: Collateral damage like taking out 70 other people in a public market? Peter Principle.

RBG

# 24 Nappy Headed Ho said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:49 am

#16 – Bobbo, obviously we haven’t killed enough people. Remember, we are doing them a favor so they can get their 72 virgins.

A few: http://tinyurl.com/ykmoa5v

# 25 Skeptic said, on January 31st, 2010 at 9:50 am

Canada has a few drones there as well. They’re not quite as effective because they must announce their presence and ask politely, “excuse me, do you mind terribly if I kill you now?”

# 26 bobbo, a student of history and Rumsfeld said, on January 31st, 2010 at 10:10 am

#24–Nappy==heh, heh. I WAS expecting those very girls, but I hadn’t seen that pose before. Very fetching.

I agree “if” we killed more/enough that their behavior/beliefs would EVOLVE over time and the group would be made up of people who didn’t want to die.

===but we Americans are not willing to provide that amount of convincing. We wimp out in those circumstances.

So==how proud should we be that we do, and will only ever do, a half assed job that will never succeed? How vividly must that FACT be before we try something else??? Before Nappy Headed Jingoists stop yelling for what they can never have?

aka=Intelligent Obama Based Apologistic Foreign Diplomacy aimed at getting what we want from the world instead of looking foolish.

# 27 eaglescout1998 said, on January 31st, 2010 at 10:30 am

Was he read his Miranda rights?

# 28 Nappy Headed Ho said, on January 31st, 2010 at 10:31 am

Bobbo, these were the same girls that collapsed the floor at Jenny Craig a couple of weeks ago.

# 29 sargasso said, on January 31st, 2010 at 11:18 am

Reported by Pakistan State Television from an anonymous source, re-reported by Sky News, a Fox TV affiliated network. A reason why a marine on the ground with an M16, will never be replaced by a remotely controlled drone. Verifiable head count.

# 30 EdZepp said, on January 31st, 2010 at 11:20 am

#25 lmao;)

# 31 Loose Stool With Cheese said, on January 31st, 2010 at 11:50 am

#13the next question is where do you get exploding carpet to make bombs with?

# 32 RBG said, on January 31st, 2010 at 11:51 am

25 Skeptic
In both official languages.
Respecting that targets proportionally include disadvantaged social & ethnic groups.

RBG

# 33 Dirk Thundernuts said, on January 31st, 2010 at 12:11 pm

I came here to see the virgins, wasn’t disappointed.

# 34 Faxon said, on January 31st, 2010 at 12:28 pm

Must have been quite a sight to see all those ragheads flying around in different directions, rolling down the dirt streets. Nothing better than taking out ragheads. Funny thing, some liberal pukes think this is a bad thing. Makes me wonder when they are leaving for Yemen.

# 35 Special Ed said, on January 31st, 2010 at 12:34 pm

#34 – Rags? Some of them look like fairly nice table cloths.

# 36 clancys_daddy said, on January 31st, 2010 at 1:25 pm

#27 They were printed on the side of the missile. But you have to read really, really, fast.

# 37 deowll said, on January 31st, 2010 at 2:49 pm

The drones, which have been in use for several years, are an effective tool for taking out people. The problem is you don’t always know exactly who you are taking out and more or less innocent third parties are certain to be among the dead however innocent third parties are always killed in war. In this case the Taliban often deliberately try to hide among such people.

# 38 Greg Allen said, on January 31st, 2010 at 6:50 pm

Wow. The loathsome posts here show that bin Laden got exactly what he wanted from 911.

# 39 cheap r4i card said, on January 31st, 2010 at 10:24 pm

Hakimullah’s profile was raised after he appeared in a farewell video with Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al Balawi – the Jordanian doctor-turned-suicide bomber and triple agent who killed the seven agency employees.

# 40 bill said, on January 31st, 2010 at 10:30 pm

Wow! Payback is a bitch! Ain’t it?

# 41 Dale said, on January 31st, 2010 at 11:25 pm

Don’t they all want to be martyrs? We simply obliged.

# 42 Glenn E. said, on February 1st, 2010 at 1:52 am

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.

# 43 algoreisacrook said, on February 1st, 2010 at 11:40 am

another sand knee grow bites the dust

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