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...Once served as Baitullah Mehsud's driver. Was appointed the Taliban commander's chief spokesman...
...announcement highlighted the degree to which the Taliban has been decimated by infighting and drone attacks - as well as the degree to which keeping tabs on a group shrouded in secrecy remains a formidable challenge. Pakistani officials had recently issued conflicting reports as to whether Hakimullah was even alive; intelligence sources suggested he had been killed in a shootout during a Taliban meeting convened to decide on Baitullah's successor. Some still suspect that the man calling himself Hakimullah is, in fact, an imposter claiming to be the terror chief in a bid to convince the world that the group...
...Read "Pakistani Taliban Leaders Fighting Amongst Themselves...
...with Western journalists at an undisclosed location in Orakzai, at which he assailed Pakistan?s President, Asif Ali Zardari, for kowtowing to U.S. interests. The meeting, during which he posed next to a U.S. Humvee stolen from a military convoy, cemented his reputation as a rising star within the Taliban...
...Unanimously selected as leader by a 42-member shura council during a meeting held in South Waziristan, according to another Taliban commander...