(Previous Incident Code: Ob20 )

An attack against an alleged Taliban camp (the suspected camp of Baitullah Mehsud) killed five militants, according to data collected by the local political administration. A further seven unspecified individuals were wounded.

Local TTP commander Niaz or Khwaz Wali Mehsud was reportedly among the dead.  Wali Mehsud was reportedly killed ‘as bait for a bigger fish’. According to Washington Post national security correspondent Joby Warrick (The Triple Agent):

A [CIA] plan was quickly hatched to strike Baitullah Mehsud when he attended the man’s funeral. True… Wali Mehsud happened to be very much alive as the plan took shape. But he would not be for long.’

The News – citing ‘statistics compiled by the [Pakistani] Ministry of Interior’ – reported that Mullah Sangeen was killed in strike Ob21 or Ob22. But in August 2011 the US State Department added the alleged senior Haqqani Network militant to a ‘list of specially designated global terrorists‘.