U.S. Army soldiers await the landing of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to be extracted during Operation Champion Spear outside the village of Marsac in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Sept. 7, 2009. The soldiers are assigned to the 25th Infantry Division's 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Christopher NicholasFrom New York Review Of Books:
On August 5, Baitullah Mehsud, the all-powerful and utterly ruthless commander of the Pakistani Taliban, was killed in a US missile strike in South Waziristan. At the time of the strike, he was undergoing intravenous treatment for a kidney ailment, and was lying on the roof of his father-in-law's house with his young second wife. At about one o'clock that morning, a missile fired by an unmanned CIA drone tore through the house, splitting his body in two and killing his wife, her parents, and seven bodyguards.
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