A close aide to Pakistan’s Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud said he is breaking ties with him and confirmed reports that Mehsud was behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Qari Turkestan Bhitaini, a self-proclaimed right-hand man of Mehsud, said Mehsud was behind the December 27, 2007, assassination of Bhutto, Pakistan’s Express TV reported. Bhitaini said he is breaking ties with Mehsud because he blames the Taliban chief for killing scores of innocent Muslims in recent attacks in Lahore
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Making Do: The President and His Troublesome Allies
Pity the Obama Administration, having to behave as if Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai were reliable stewards of U.S. security interests in the world’s most troubling trouble-spot