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September 30th, 2008
Posted: 03:52 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 confirmed to CNN that Mehsud had died.

Earlier reports said the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan was ill and was expected to die within a day. He is said to have succumbed to kidney failure and was believed to be around 34 years old.

The Pakistan government blamed Mehsud for the December 27, 2007, assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
–From CNN’s Zein Basravi


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