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U.S. President Barack Obama said we took out Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief believed to have been killed this month in a missile strike by a U.S. drone. Obama's comments seemed to go further than other U.S. officials who had said there was a 90 percent certainty that Mehsud had been killed on 5th August, although there was no confirmation. You've got the Pakistan army for the first time fighting in a very aggressive way and that's how we took out Mehsud, the top Taliban leader in Pakistan who was also one of Osama bin Laden's key allies, Obama told a radio talk show host in a live broadcast from the White House. Mehsud was blamed for a wave of bombings across Pakistan, including the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He also said that US army is carrying out its operations against Taliban in Eastern and Southern Afghanistan, while Pakistani army is combating against Taliban towards the Western side. A huge number of voters turned out at the polling station and fully participated in voting for the elections. US will defeat the Taliban at any cost, Obama added.
