Pakistan Taliban’s No. 2 Commander Targeted by U.S. Drone
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A U.S. drone attack yesterday killed the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban, who allegedly was involved in the 2009 suicide attack on a Central Intelligence Agency outpost in Afghanistan that killed seven Americans, according to a U.S. official.
Pakistani intelligence officials said Waliur Rehman was killed in the strike, though the group denied he was dead, the Associated Press reported. The attack came six days after President Barack Obama announced tighter restrictions on targeted killings by remotely piloted aircraft, known as drones. The U.S. official who confirmed the strike asked not to be named because it was a classified operation.