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Intelligence officials have said Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud appeared to have escaped the strike, while a local Taliban commander also denied rising speculation Friday that Mehsud was wounded...
Under the 28-year-old's watch, militant attacks in Pakistan have soared since October, even as the army has waged an offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in South Waziristan tribal region. Mehsud also appeared on a recent video with the Jordanian militant who killed seven CIA employees in a December suicide attack in Afghanistan...
Mehsud's predecessor, fellow tribesman Baitullah Mehsud, died in a missile strike last August in South Waziristan. For nearly three weeks, militants denied his death even as U.S. and Pakistani officials said they were increasingly confident...
...Pakistani Taliban appeared in disarray for those initial weeks following Baitullah Mehsud's death, with several reports emerging of a power struggle between Hakimullah Mehsud and the man who eventually became his deputy, Waliur Rehman...
...public, Pakistani government officials criticize the missile strikes and say the United States is violating their country's sovereignty. But there is little doubt Islamabad agrees to at least some of the attacks and provides targeting information for them...