By Abdullah Al-Wazir

In continuing of this independent investigative report which I am undertaking, and based upon our own private sources in Pakistan, we have received more clarification and information yesterday about the confusion regarding this strange matter which explains what caused the Pakistan authorities in Islamabad to spread this rumor of the death of Baitullah Mahsood, the leader of Taliban Pakistan.

Our sources in Pakistan stated that a team consisting of US and Pakistani intelligence personnel planned and implemented a joint operation to wipe out Baitullah Mahsood in his stronghold of South Waziristan.

In summary, the plan was to send various teams of intelligence agents inside South Waziristan, which then snuck in and focused on specific areas in the depths of the province, in order to track and locate the movements of Baitullah Mahsood and then to take him out. US spy planes were to provide further information about his whereabouts, and they could also carry out the role of wiping him out from the sky if the situation arose.

However, after one month, these reconnaissance teams and spy planes utterly failed in locating the whereabouts of Baitullah Mahsood in the province! This was strengthened by the suspicions of the intelligence teams surrounding the death of Baitullah Mahsood, due to previous intelligence reports which stated that Baitullah Mahsood’s health was ailing and that he was suffering from some chronic illnesses.

Our sources in Pakistan stated that the intelligence team changed their strategy into one which ascertained the condition of Baitullah Mahsood. One of the key elements of this plan was to spread the rumor of the death of Baitullah Mahsood in the media, because the US and Pakistani intelligence agencies believe Baitullah Mahsood to be a person who likes to show himself in the media. This will encourage him, if he is indeed alive, to come out in the open in the media to dispel the rumor of his death himself. In turn, this would aid in tracking his location!

When US spy planes conducted airstrikes against one of the houses in South Waziristan at Fajr time last Wednesday, the US and Pakistan intelligence team magnified the affair, and due to this, they tried to spread this rumor of the death of Baitullah Mahsood as much as they could. They even used some defeatists who call themselves Taliban, such as the so-called Turkistan Baitni and others, in order to give this rumor some semblance of truth. They then announced that a Shura meeting was held in order to choose the next leader, and they extended their lie even more, saying that an armed conflict arose over the position of leadership. However, our sources in Pakistan have confirmed that all this information is fabricated without no basis whatsoever!

Our sources in Pakistan added, quoting Taliban Pakistan:

Many tried to convince Mahsood to come out in the open, but Baitullah Mahsood is not so easy. Rather he is shrewd and knows the plots of the enemy well, dealing with them with the clever leadership.

His associated have promised to release a video tape of Baitullah Mahsood soon.

I asked our sources in Pakistan to further clarify the health of Baitullah Mahsood, because I understood from a previous telephone conversation that he was in good health, as there some reports which state that Baitullah Mahsood suffers from some chronic illnesses despite his young age. Is he in good health or is he sick?

Summary:

Baitullah Mahsood is alive and well in Pakistan, and his group will soon release a video tape of him. The adamancy of the Pakistani authorities in Islamabad of their claim of the death of Baitullah Mahsood in those airstrikes has no meaning, especially when these authorities have not provided any evidence to support its claim!

There is strong coordination between US and Pakistani intelligence which has reached the extent that they now carry out joint operations inside Pakistan!

The Pakistani authorities allow US spy planes to use Pakistan airspace to carry out air assaults inside Pakistani territory which lead to the destruction of many civilians, as we all see.

This type of propaganda war used by the intelligence agencies against its enemies, in my opinion, is a gamble through which they try to achieve speedy results. If it works, it will have its dangerous results upon regimes and governments, and the enemy groups which are targeted may even self-destruct in a second. But what are the results if these claims fail to achieve their goals? I believe that it will be a great setback and a huge blow which US and Pakistani intelligence will suffer from for a while to come, especially since Taliban Pakistan exposed this plot which sought to wipe out Baitullah Mahsood!

We will bring more details and information as they appear, Allah willing.

May Allah guide us to that which He loves and is pleased with