Baitullah Mehsud: Benazir Bhutto's assassin?
Friday, December 28, 2007
Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said the government recorded an "intelligence intercept," in which militant leader Baitullah Mehsud "congratulated his people for carrying out this cowardly act."
Cheema described Mehsud as an "al-Qaida leader," and blamed him for the Karachi bomb blast that targeted Bhutto in October and killed more than 140 people.
Mehsud is regarded as the commander of pro-Taliban forces in the lawless Pakistani tribal region South Waziristan, where al-Qaida fighters are also active.
Click here to read this article, "Pakistan in turmoil as Bhutto buried," by the Jerusalem Post