Baitullah Mehsud Killed in Drone Attack?
“Intelligence Reports” are coming out that Tehrik-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud is apparently killed in drone attack happened couple of days back, where his wife died along with some other people.
Most of the international media has extracted this news from a vague statement of Rehman Malik, BBC reports:
Pakistan’s information minister stressed that although the information coming in suggested he had been killed, there was no tangible proof.
Even if DNA could be recovered at the scene, he added, the authorities did not have a sample from a male relative to compare it with.
New York Times quotes an American official with access to classified intelligence reports, “There is reason to believe that reports of his death may be true, but it can’t be confirmed at this time”.
ISPR, on the other hand, has denied that Mehsud is killed in the drone attack.
So, what’s really happening?
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August 7th, 2009 13:40 GMT
Sub GOLMAL hai.
August 7th, 2009 17:10 GMT
Isn’t this so similar to the Osama Bin Laden case?
August 7th, 2009 17:13 GMT
@Momina
Exactly the same
August 8th, 2009 14:52 GMT
According to DAWN (August 8. 2009), “He was clearly visible with his wife,” a senior security official, who saw the video footage, said. “And the missile hit the target as it was. His torso remained, while half of the body was blown up.” They were able to see him and his wife from a up high in the sky! Is this superior technology, or superior magic?
August 9th, 2009 08:40 GMT
“Live by the sword, die by the sword.” It seems a shame about his wife, who is at least theoretically an “innocent;” but was she really innocent if she gave him “aid and comfort” during his destructive activities? It probably depends upon whether she had the choice of leaving him or not; if she did not have that choice, then she was his prisoner, and is therefore an innocent extra casualty. If she did have the choice of leaving him, and did not, then she’s to some extent guilty, too.
Maybe he was just visiting her, and shouldn’t have, knowing that he was being hunted.
@Mr. Lakhani: One of my boyhood friends works in the aviation industry in China. He told me recently that they have trouble communicating with some local maintenance trainees who believe that it is “spirits” that, for instance, keep screws screwed tight or let them loosen, instead of friction, the low leverage of shallow threading and the counter-effects of lock washers or the lack of one of those.
High-tech might look like magic, but it’s just simple physics; complicated machines are no more than a number of very simple ones arranged to work together. Anyone can do it, but not with “spirits.” But we do very frequently anthropomorphize machines, though, don’t we? Silly but satisfying–to name your car, or your bike, or some such–, until you’re whacked with a whopping repair bill when the *&%##!! thing stops working!
August 9th, 2009 23:11 GMT
As a mechanical engineer I used to be given excuses about machines not working owing to spirits or black magic, but research would prove that either sabotage or negligence was involved. Every phenomenon has a scientific explanation, even though it takes time to understand it.
September 5th, 2009 17:57 GMT
AMERA NAY CHUPA DIA HAE Q K HE WAS WORKING FOR THEM.ALLAH KNOWS