ISLAMABAD - The ongoing confusion over whether Baitullah Mehsud, head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was killed in a US Predator drone attack in the South Waziristan tribal area last Wednesday bears similarity to previous incidents in which al-Qaeda and the Taliban faked a leader's death to buy themselves some time.
Baitullah, who has a US$5 million bounty on his head in connection with numerous acts of terror, has variously been described as "dead and buried", "gravely ill" and "alive and well" following the drone attack on August 5 in which his second wife
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