ISLAMABAD (AP) U.S. missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant communication center Friday, killing 17 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said. The two attacks ...

... an abandoned seminary in the village of Mantoi used as a training base by militants from Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud's group, the officials said. In the other strike, one missile hit an insurgent communications center in the ...

... government blamed the attack on Baitullah Mehsud, head of the Tehrik-i-Taliban ... We strongly deny it. Baitullah Mehsud is not involved in the killing ... The story that al-Qaida or Baitullah Mehsud did it appears to us to be a ...

... Iqbal Cheema said. The government released a transcript Friday of a purported conversation between militant leader Baitullah Mehsud and another militant. "It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed her," Mehsud said, according ...