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U.S. drone strike in November results in a split in the Pakistani Taliban

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  1. 1. The Pakistani Taliban has split into two factions. Do you care?

    • Yes, because War on Terror.
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    • Yes, because Nuclear Proliferation.
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    • Yes, because Afghanistan and Karzai.
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    • Yes, other reason(s).
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    • No.
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  2. 2. A U.S. drone strike set in motion events that have resulted in a split in the Pakistani Taliban. Does this change how you feel about U.S. drone strikes in the AfPak region?

    • Yes, more favorable.
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    • Yes, less favorable.
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    • No.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban, riven by infighting, splintered into two major groups Wednesday as the leader of its dominant faction announced that it was severing ties with chief Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah.

During a rare news conference in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Mehsud faction said it was breaking away because other elements of the Pakistani Taliban are too violent and undisciplined. The Mehsud faction, led by Khan Said, will now operate independently from its historical base in North and South Waziristan.

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The rift within the Pakistani Taliban — also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP — can be traced to a U.S. drone strike in November that killed the group’s leader, Hakimullah Mehsud. He had been implicated in a 2009 attack that killed seven Americans at a CIA outpost in eastern Afghanistan.

After he was killed, a power struggle erupted, resulting in the group’s main factions at times turning their weapons on each other.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistani-taliban-splits-into-two-amid-infighting/2014/05/28/f59a72fa-e681-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html

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