Suddenly He's Not Dead

The Pakistani Taliban's leader Baitullah Mehsud is gravely ill,according to his top aide.
Maulan Nur Syed denied this was linked in any way to claims Baitullah Mehsud (who has been blamed for many suicide attacks on allied forces) was killed in a US missile strike on Wednesday in a remote tribal area.
Both the US and Pakistan earlier said their intelligence strongly suggested Baitullah Mehsud was killed in the attack.
There were also reports of a major gun battle between potential successors to Baitullah Mehsud after the strike.
On Sunday, Maulana Nur Syed announced the Pakistani Taliban leader had not been at the house that was attacked by the US missile. But it is thought, that by making this statement, the Taliban are preparing the ground for an announcement that Pakistan's most wanted man 'IS IN FACT DEAD'.

Earlier, Pakistani officials said they had "credible evidence" that Baitullah Mehsud had been killed. But senior Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud then contacted the BBC to say his chief was alive and well.
Officials in Islamabad later said that Hakimullah was himself one of those killed in a fight over succession in South Waziristan.

In Washington, US National Security Adviser Jim Jones put the level of US certainty that Baitullah Mehsud had been killed "in the 90% category". The Pakistani interior minister has challenged the Taliban to prove its leaders are still alive. But Taliban commanders have dismissed this as a ploy to flush them out into the open.

They are sly devils who use a lot of smoke and mirrors to confuse and frustrate their enemies.

Their best weapon is the sneak attack or the suicide bomber.If a few women and children are killed; if even their own women and children get caught in the blast , it's okay. It's a religious war and sacrifices have to be made. And yet we've just read that they are killing each other over the claim to leadership of the Taliban. Sounds more secular than jehaad to me.

This is a very different type of war than we are used to and we are fighting on their turf , so they are better at it than we are. How do they come by their mind set? Shall we say,'THE SUICIDE BOMBER MIND SET'?....Read my next post.