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September 30th, 2008
Posted: 04:33 PM ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The leader of Pakistan’s Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead from kidney failure, sources tell CNN. An unnamed Islamabad-based source with connections within the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan told CNN that Mehsud died around 1 a.m. Wednesday. Military officials in the field also told CNN that Mehsud had died. Geo Television of Pakistan and other local station reported his death, too. But some reports also had the Taliban denying Mehsud’s death. The Pakistan government blamed Mehsud for the December 27, 2007, assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Mehsud had denied any involvement. |
 
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