Drone Kills Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud; Pakistan Accuses U.S. Of Derailing Peace Talks -- Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S. drone strike killed the chief of the Pakistani Taliban on Friday, local intelligence officials said, in an attack that could cripple the group but undermine an effort by Pakistan’s government to engage militants in peace talks.
If verified, the death of Hakimullah Mehsud would be a victory for U.S. officials who have spent years hunting down a leader implicated in a 2009 attack that killed seven Americans at a CIA outpost in eastern Afghanistan.
But the drone strike also threatened to add to strains between the United States and Pakistan, whose new prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, had announced earlier in the day that his government would begin talks aimed at reaching a negotiated settlement with the group.
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My Comment: Pakistani government protests are a bit of stretch ..... Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud has never shown any interest in the past for peace talks .... his priority has always been to wage war in order to install his own version of Islamic rule in the region. The fact that he has also been involved in terror strikes on NATO forces in Afghanistan as well as planning terror attacks on U.S. soil made him a high priority target. To him it has always been "victory or death" .... and today a CIA hit squad (via a drone missile attack) gave him death.
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