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".
Mr. Obama, by contrast, would have us believe that the problem in notonly just al Qaeda but that that threat is pretty much a thing of the past, thanks to bin Laden's elimination and the decimation primarily bydrone strikes of others among its leadership and rank and file.