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Official: Likelihood of Pakistani Taliban leader’s death ‘90 percent’

The United States believes Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a drone attack last week, President Obama’s national security adviser said Sunday.

“We think so,” Gen. Jim Jones told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” adding, “We put it in the 90 percent [likelihood] category.”

Pakistan’s foreign and interior ministers said Friday the government was still waiting to conduct DNA analysis to confirm the identity of a man killed Wednesday in an unmanned aerial vehicle strike.

The suspected U.S. drone targeted the home of Mehsud’s father-in-law, Mulvi Ikram ud Din, in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal area, an intelligence official said.

Taliban officials have denied reports of Mehsud’s death.