Taliban denies report of militant chief''s death

Message-Id: <20100131123005.EA57D307304B@node2.byetcluster.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:30:05 -0500 (EST) From: root@admin2.byetcluster.com (root) ISLAMABAD: The Asiatic Taleban on Sun denied firm rumours that their honcho Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, patch the army said it was work as reports re-emerged that he was killed by US drone missiles. Speculation about the warlord''s modification prototypal surfaced after a January 14 bombing by pilotless US spy planes in Taleban defence North Waziristan, but within life Mehsud released digit frequence statements denying his demise. Security sources said at the time that he may impact been wounded, and on Sun topical television stations carried a report that he had been buried. "I don''t impact the confirmation, my sources impact not addicted it, whether he is departed or alive," honcho military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said, adding that they were work the report. Taliban spokesmen had earlier this period admitted that Mehsud was in the Shaktoi Atlantic where the drones hit, but said he left about an distance before the strike. US officials said they had no aggregation about his reportable death. The honcho Taleban spokesman again Sun unemployed the reports. "Hakimullah is aware and safe. The determine of stories regarding his modification is to create differences among Taleban ranks, but much grouping module never succeed," Azam Tariq told a foreign programme authority by ring from an unknown location. "People who are saying that Hakimullah has died should provide grounds of it -- we impact already evidenced that he is aware and we impact provided digit frequence tapes of him to every the media." Mehsud acknowledged activity of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), blamed for the deaths of thousands of grouping in attacks, after his predecessor, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a US drone accomplish in August terminal year. The TTP denied Baitullah Mehsud''s modification for weeks, apparently amid unmerciful infighting over who would follow him.
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