Via al Jazeera:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/05/201352955158237275.htmlA US drone strike has killed the number two of the Pakistani Taliban, Wali ur Rehman, in the North Waziristan region, according to security officials in Pakistan.
Rehman, who had a $5m US government bounty on his head, reportedly died along with at least five others when two missiles were fired on a house early on Wednesday.
Officials in several towns, as well as tribal and intelligence sources, said Rehman was killed in the attack in Chashma village near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.
Two officials said their informants in the field saw Rehman's body, while a third said intelligence authorities had intercepted communications between fighters saying Rehman had been killed.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, however, denied the reports.
"This appears to me to be false news. I don't have any such information," Ahsanullah Ahsan told the AP news agency.
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