Baitullah Mehsud (Or Baitullah Mehsood, pictured above) and his fighters captured a company-sized military convoy in South Waziristan during a complex military operation in early September 2007 (Long War Journal). His fighters also captured two different Pakistani forts in 2008 and he is suspected of being behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. The CIA also agreed that the assassins of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, were directed by Baitullah Mehsud.
Three top Taliban factions decided to join forces today in Pakistan.