Spoke to Bill Roggio, Long War Journal, and John Loftus, John Loftus Show, and learned that the widespread reports of Baitulllah Mehsud's death by Predator were greatly exaggerated. No confirm. Bill says that five Taliban leaders have come forth to say that Mehsud is alive and feisty. The source of the death reports are the usual blowhards in Islamabad, using ISI and Pakistan Army sources. Wolf, wolf. Again. Why do US front pages leap so easily into reporting agitprop from the ISI? Isn't this the same old sin of leaping at agitprop from other (unnamed) capitals?


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