PakistaniTaliban Video Reveals That Their Chief Was Not Killed In A Drone Missile Strike In January

Web Video Shows Pakistani Militant Leader Thought To Be Dead -- Washington Post

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- A Pakistani militant leader who was thought to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike in January has appeared in a new Internet video, vowing attacks on American cities.

The video of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud surfaced early Monday. It was released shortly after another clip appeared on YouTube, in which the group claimed responsibility for the failed bomb attempt in Times Square. Counter-terrorism analysts dismiss that claim as highly unlikely, noting that the organization has displayed no ability to strike beyond Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Pakistani Officials: Taliban Chief Now Believed Alive

Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud (c.) sits with other millitants in South Waziristan in this October 4, 2009 file video grab. Mehsud is in fact alive, according to a senior intelligence official in Islamabad. Reuters TV/Reuters/File

Pakistan Agents Believe Taliban's Mehsud Is Alive -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Pakistani intelligence officials said on Thursday they believed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was alive, contradicting earlier comments that he was killed in a CIA-operated drone aircraft strike.

Mehsud was widely believed to have been killed in the Taliban bastion of South Waziristan near the Afghan border in January.

A Pakistani intelligence official said it was now believed that Mehsud had survived the attack."Yes, he is alive," a senior intelligence official told Reuters.

A second Pakistani intelligence official said he also believed that Mehsud survived the missile strike, though there was no hard evidence to confirm it.

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