WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said on Thursday ‘we took out’ Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief believed to have been killed this month in a missile strike by a US drone.
Obama’s comments seemed to go further than other US officials who had said there was a “90 percent certainty” that Mehsud had been killed on August 5, although there was no confirmation.
“You’ve got the Pakistan army for the first time fighting in a very aggressive way and that’s how we took out Mehsud, the top Taliban leader in Pakistan who was also one of Osama bin Laden’s key allies,” Obama told a radio talk show host in a live broadcast from the White House.
was first posted on August 21, 2009 at 11:13 am.
