Image: The late leader of the Pakistani Tehrik-e-Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud: Part 1 | al-Wasat

-Christopher Anzalone (McGill University)

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Hakimullah Mehsud poses with Abu Zarr al-Burmi (Abu Zarr ‘Azzam), a religious scholar and preacher affiliated with the Pakistani Tehrik-e-Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. The latter was a teacher at the Jami’at Faruqiyya school in Karachi and also read Hussain Mehsud of the Pakistani Tehrik-e-Taliban.

Hakimullah Mehsud with the late Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader Abu Usman Adil (left), who was killed by a U.S. drone in April 2012.

Hakimullah Mehsud with the late founder and leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Mohammad Tahir Farooq (far left), who died in 2009 from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile attack.

Hakimullah Mehsud and Mohammad Tahir Farooq.

Hakimullah Mehsud and Dr. Humam al-Balawi, Jordanians Jihadist He deceived the CIA and Jordanian BroadCast Unitedligence into thinking he was working for them. On December 30, 2009, Balawi, with the help of the Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda Central, carried out a “martyrdom operation” inside the US military base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing seven CIA agents, including the station chief, and his Jordanian security service manager.

Hakimullah Mehsud with Mohammad Tahir Farooq and Haji Noor (far left), one of the local Pashtun tribesmen who helpedJihadist”