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

#2 Baytullah Mahsud

Mahsud was a founding militant of the Pakistani Taliban, which U.S. intelligence suggested could have been behind the 2007 assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Despite his small stature, it is suggested that he had commanded as many as 20,000 fighters and provided refuge for Afghani Taliban members after the 2001 U.S. invasion. His death was a big deal to US intelligence and counterterrorism operations in the region.