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U.S., Pakistan believe Mehsud dead

Rival successors struggle for power;Afghan militant admits GI held

By BY ELENA BECATOROS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 4:43 a.m.

Supporters of the hard-line Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami chant during an anti-U.S. rally in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday.

The U.S. and Pakistan are almost certain a U.S. missile strike killed the head of Pakistan's Taliban and that his death led to a fierce power struggle among his deputies, officials said Sunday, despite claims and counterclaims as to the fate of the country's most wanted man.

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