Mehsud was killed in August last year when a missile fired by a suspected U.S drone targeted his hideout in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan tribal region.
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The sensors are supported bydrone aircraft known locally as "desert phantoms".
The New America Foundation estimates that between 1, 953 and 3, 279 have been killed bydrone attacks in Pakistan alone, of whom roughly one in 10 were civilians.
His preferred use of force when dealing with terrorism is a protracted campaign of assassination bydrone strike which he says has succeeded fabulously, yet which curiously requires indefinite expansion.