The world in brief
Posted: August 9, 2009 at 5:40 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "We need to see the dead bodies, we need to do some DNA, we need to have something solid." Rehman Malik, interior minister of Pakistan, on reports that Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud had been killed in a CIA missile strike as reports emerged of a clash during a meeting to choose a successor.
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