Several credible sources are reporting that a U.S. missile strike successfully killed the commander of the Pakistani Taliban. But now the Taliban claims that Baitullah Mehsud is still alive and says the burden of proof is on the Pakistan government to prove he is dead. How significant is it if Mehsud is dead? What will that mean for Taliban cohesion? Why might his death actually make the Pakistani military ease up in its push against the Taliban? And just how vast are the changes to the U.S. strategy in that theater of the war on terrorism? We ask Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, vice president of research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
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