Don’t know about US … but what was Pakistan army doing when he was giving press conferences inside Pakistani territory
Taliban leader flaunts his power inside Pakistan - International Herald Tribune
Taliban leader flaunts his power inside Pakistan
With great fanfare, the Pakistani Army flew journalists to a rugged corner of the nation’s lawless tribal areas in May to show how decisively it had destroyed the lairs of the Taliban, including a school for suicide bombers, in fighting early this year.
Then, just days later, the usually reclusive leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, held a news conference of his own, in the same region, to show just who was in charge
The impunity of Mehsud’s behavior has outraged the Bush administration, which is pressing the Pakistani government to arrest and prosecute him