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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Ameer Baitullah Mehsud Safe And Sound: Black Propaganda
9 August 2009
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Ameer Baitullah Mehsud is safe and sound Close commanders of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief have rejected the reports about the death of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Ameer Baitullah Mehsud as rumours. There were rumours that Mehsud was among the four people killed in a drone attack in an area of Zangra after which he was buried in Nigosa. His younger wife, daughter of Malik Ikramuddin Mehsud, reportedly also died in the air strikes and four children were reportedly injured in the attack. “How could he die in the attack when he was not present in the house,” said a close aide to Baitullah, who called news agencies from an undisclosed location. 'Black propaganda' The reports have added to earlier confusion surrounding the reported death of Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader who had a US bounty of $5m on his head. There has been widespread speculation that Mehsud was killed, along with his wife and bodyguards, after a US drone aircraft fired missiles at his father-in-law's house in the village of Makeen earlier in the week. But, earlier on Saturday, Hakimullah Mehsud told reporters by telephone that Baitullah Mehsud was in good health and would soon appear in the media to prove that he was alive. Haikmullah Mehsud called the reports of Baitullah's death "black propaganda" aimed at luring the Pakistani Taliban leader into the open so that he could be targeted. His claims were echoed by Maulana Merajuddin, who heads a delegation representing Mehsud's tribe in Islamabad. "I believe that what we have heard by media sources during the past few days on the killing of Mehsud is incorrect," he said. "My sources from local citizens in Waziristan confirm that Mehsud is alive and doing well." The reports of a shura, or meeting, to decide on succession within the Taliban have fuelled speculation that Baitullah Mehsud was indeed dead. But there remains no physical evidence of Baitullah Mehsud's demise and previous claims of his death have proved false. The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander cinfirmed that Baitullah was far away from the place where the drone struck the house of his father-in-law. He said that the Pakistani government had declared Baitullah dead twice in the past, but those claims proved untrue. “How could a person wanted by the Pakistani and US governments would like to stay at a place where the US spy planes fly round-the-clock and the Pakistani forces continuously target his positions,” he asked. Profile Of Amir Baitullah Mehsud Amir Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or the Pakistani Taliban, was once hailed by a Pakistani general as a "soldier of peace". He had been declared the Amir of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and signed a deal with the government that ushered in a brief lull in fighting in the South Waziristan region along the Afghan border. But much has changed since that short-lived peace deal in 2005. Subsequently, intelligence officials blamed Amir Mehsud for the wave of violence that swept across Pakistan after the military stormed Islamabad's Red Mosque in July 2007. However, he really gained wider notoriety after the Pakistani government of Pervez Musharraf, the former president, accused him of being behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, in December 2007. Taliban fighter Amir Mehsud was born in the early 1970s near the town of Bannu in North West Frontier Province, some distance away from his family's tribal base in South Waziristan. He later moved to the village of Shaga in South Waziristan where he is said to have built a home. Amir Mehsud rose to lead the Pakistani Taliban after fighting for its Afghan namesake in the 1990s. Intelligence officials say that the Pakistani Taliban is actually a loose alliance of a number of groups fighting for a stricter interpretation of the sharia, or Islamic law, in Pakistan's northwest. It has frequently targeted symbols of Islamabad's authority over the region, such as the military, police and government officials.
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