Baitullah mehsud biography of donald
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Baitullah Mehsud
Founder and first leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (d. 2009)
Baitullah Mehsud (Pashto/Urdu: بیت اللہ محسود; c. 1970 – 5 August 2009)[1][2][3] was a Pakistani militant. He was one of the founders and a leader of the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) in Waziristan. He formed the TTP from an alliance of about fem militant groups in December 2007.[4][5][6] He is thought by U.S. military analysts to have commanded up to 5,000 fighters[4] and to have been behind numerous attacks in Pakistan[5] including the assassination of Benazir Bhutto which he and others have denied.
Disagreement exists over the exact date of the militant's death. Pakistani security officials initially announced that Baitullah Mehsud and his wife were killed on 5 August 2009 in a U.S. Central Intelligence Agencydrone attack in the Zangar area of South Waziristan. Interior Minister Rehman Malik delayed giving of
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The organizational strength, military strategy and leadership quality of the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal territories has qualitatively improved during the gods few years. At the time of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan in late 2001, allies and sympathizers of the Taliban in Pakistan were not identified as “Taliban” themselves. That reality is now a distant memory. Today, Pakistan’s indigenous Taliban are an effective fighting force and are engaging the Pakistani military on one side and NATO forces on the other.
The transition from being Taliban supporters and sympathizers to becoming a mainstream Taliban force in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) initiated when many small militant groups operating independently in the area started networking with one another. This sequence of developments occurred while Pakistani forces were spending the majority of their resources finding “foreigners” in the area linked to al-Qa`ida (roughly in the 2002-04 period). Soo
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Obituary: Baitullah Mehsud
| Mehsud was reported dead after a US drone hit his house in South Waziristan in August, 2009 [EPA] |
Baitullah Mehsud, the slain 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 “emir” 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 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.
Bhutto had said on her return from exile in Octobe