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Pakistani Taliban leader may be dead after U.S. drone attack

Aug. 7, 2009
Pakistan's government is still trying to verify intelligence reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a recent drone attack, officials said Friday.
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