{"id":3288,"date":"2010-01-15T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2010-01-15T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:10:14","slug":"pakistan-taliban-leader-escapes-air-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pakistan-taliban-leader-escapes-air-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Taliban leader escapes air attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The leader of Pakistan&#8217;s Taliban, who is suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Central Intelligence Agency base in Afghanistan, narrowly escaped a strike by US drones yesterday that killed 13 suspected militants, Pakistani security officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pakistan1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3289\" title=\"Pakistan Taliban leader escapes air attack\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pakistan1-280x175.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan Taliban leader escapes air attack\" width=\"280\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pakistan1-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pakistan1.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>A senior Pakistani official said Hakimullah Mehsud may have been wounded when missiles hit a compound where he was believed to have been hiding. The CIA has launched a string of attacks on targets in Pakistan&#8217;s tribal areas since last month&#8217;s suicide attack on their base in eastern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the Americans, Hakimullah Mehsud is now their public enemy number one. They want to target him at any cost,&#8221; the Pakistani security official told the Financial Times. &#8220;It was a close call for Hakimullah. He seems lucky to have survived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video footage aired at the weekend showed Mr Mehsud seated next to a Jordanian doctor-turned suicide bomber, who managed to kill seven CIA personnel in the bombing of the base.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA attack followed an elaborate game of espionage in which the Jordanian, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had managed to convince CIA agents that he might be able to offer them valuable information in their hunt for the leaders of al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Pakistan&#8217;s Taliban, who is suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Central Intelligence Agency base in Afghanistan, narrowly escaped a strike by US drones yesterday that killed 13 suspected militants, Pakistani security officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118],"tags":[4283,4285,649],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-hakimullah-mehsud","tag-hakimullah-mehsud-cia-attack","tag-pakistan-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}