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The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan was in a drone attack on Friday. Hakimullah Mehsud was the most man in Pakistan. He in the remote Waziristan region of north-western Pakistan. Three other people died in the drone strike. In 2010, the U.S. government it would $5 million for information about where Mr Mehsud . The U.S. him for a deadly attack on one of its military bases in Afghanistan in 2009. Seven Americans and a Jordanian died in that attack. The Pakistan government America that it "strongly the U.S. drone strike". The Taliban said: "We with great [sadness] that our [great] leader was in a drone attack."

Hakimullah Mehsud leader of the Pakistan Taliban in 2009, following the death of the previous leader in a drone attack. Mehsud how much damage he could in Pakistan soon after he became leader. He was behind five terror attacks in a single day in three different Pakistani cities. Five days later, there three different attacks in the city of Lahore. American intelligence officials he was also behind a planned terror attack in New York's Times Square in 2010. Security sources say his death is a major blow to the Taliban in Pakistan. It might also bad news for peace talks between the Pakistani government and the Taliban. The two sides had been for months.