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20 Terrorist Leaders You Don’t Have To Worry About Anymore

#8 Hakimullah Mehsud

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, was killed by a CIA drone strike in Waziristan, Pakistan.  He was known for attacking a CIA base in Afghanistan, which led to the largest number of agency casualties in a single instance, and a was responsible for a campaign that killed thousands of Pakistani civilians and security force members.

Mehsud was considered a top militant, and the FBI held a $5 million bounty on his head in the months before he was killed.  Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan condemned the drone strikes, calling them an attempt to sabotage peace talks between the Pakistani government and the Taliban, to which we say – shut up Pakistan.