Outside View: The Taliban after bin Laden
by Ammar Turabi Islamabad, Pakistan (UPI) May 23, 2011 Osama bin Laden's demise will have a far-reaching impact on the scale and nature of the Pakistani Taliban insurgency in Pakistan. The insurgency of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan was conceived and directed by al-Qaida, In fact, it was al-Qaida's influence on the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud that goaded him to launch TTP in 2007. Moreover, TTP adopted al-Qaida's ideology by introducing a deadly wave of suicide bombings and killings in Pakistan.
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