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Four of the drone-fired missiles landed Friday in the Zarniri area of North Waziristan, killing three people. The area is near where a strike Thursday killed 12 people but is thought to have missed its apparent target, Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud. (See TIME's covers about Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Kills Wanted Terrorist in Pakistan | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...purported audiotape of Mehsud denying his death emerged Friday but contained no specific reference to the missile strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Kills Wanted Terrorist in Pakistan | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...lack of a reference to Thursday's strike means the tape could have been recorded prior, possibly to keep the Pakistani Taliban united in case Mehsud was incapacitated. Militants have in the past given misleading information about who lived and who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Kills Wanted Terrorist in Pakistan | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

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