Pakistani Taliban Choose New Leader, Two Turn The Job Down Due To "personal reasons"

Well, the Pakistani Taliban in the NW Provinces have replaced offed leader, Baitullah Mehsud, with a new leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, after a vote of the Taliban shura council. Members of the Mehsud tribe in NW Pakistan all have the last name so this clown isn't Baitullah's son or nephew or anything. But the funniest part of the whole selection process came when two Pakistani Taliban heavyweights were offered the job BEFORE Hakimullah Mehsud...from the article at Breitbart, here's what those two leaders decided:

Zada said the shura had spoken by phone to Faqir Mohammad and Maulana Fazlullah, the notorious commander of the Taliban in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley, to offer them the slot, but that they both refused citing personal reasons. He said the two, who are believed to be in their 50s, said they were not young enough to assume the leadership of the militants.

Hahahaha! They both turned it down for "personal reasons"....that they weren't "young enough." Yeah right. You think that possibly coming from the funeral of Baitullah Mehsud where his face was turned inside out by a hellfire might have something to do with those "personal reasons" ? Perhaps it's the fact that the Pakistani military is surrounding these two asshats at the moment.

Either way Hakimullah Mehsud now gets the bullseye on his back and we'll get to see this clown scurrying from village to village looking anxiously up in the sky for when his time to roam the halls of Hell looking for virgins will happen. Good luck, Hakimullah, you're gonna need it goatboy.

Pakistani Taliban say new leader chosen

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) - Leading Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud has been appointed the new head of the militant group, the aide to another commander said Saturday, weeks after Washington and Islamabad said the militants' chief, Baitullah Mehsud, was almost certainly killed by a missile strike.
Bakht Zada, a close aide to commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, told The Associated Press that a 42-member Taliban council, or shura, appointed a new head because Baitullah was ill. Top Taliban commanders have insisted Baitullah was not killed by an Aug. 5 CIA missile strike, but they have provided no proof he is still alive.

A captured Taliban spokesman reportedly acknowledged to authorities earlier this week that Baitullah was dead.
Pakistan's Taliban is a loose alliance of disparate groups and tribal factions, and government and intelligence officials have said they are embroiled in a bitter leadership struggle which could lead them to deny their leader is dead until a firm replacement is found.
"I do confirm that a shura held Friday ... has elected Hakimullah Mehsud the new chief of the Taliban," Zada said, adding that it was a unanimous decision. "Now all these talks of differences should end. There have not been any differences ever."
Zada said the shura had spoken by phone to Faqir Mohammad and Maulana Fazlullah, the notorious commander of the Taliban in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley, to offer them the slot, but that they both refused citing personal reasons. He said the two, who are believed to be in their 50s, said they were not young enough to assume the leadership of the militants.
On Wednesday, Mohammad told The Associated Press he himself had assumed the role of acting head of the Taliban until the shura could appoint a new leader, because Baitullah was too ill to lead.
Zada said Baitullah wanted to appoint someone else to lead the Taliban because of his ill health. He said the shura was held in Orakzai Agency in northwestern Pakistan's lawless tribal area, along the border with Afghanistan.
Members of the Mehsud tribe use the same last name.
Hakimullah Mehsud, the 28-year-old military chief of Baitullah's Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Pakistani Taliban Movement, commanded three tribal regions and has a reputation as Baitullah's most ruthless deputy. He had been considered one of the top contenders to take over.
Authorities have said he has been behind threats to foreign embassies in Islamabad, and there is a 10 million rupee ($120,000) bounty on his head. His men have been blamed for attacking U.S. and NATO supply convoys. He claimed responsibility for the June 9 bombing of the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore earlier this year.
He met journalists for the first time in November 2008, when he offered to take them on a ride in a U.S. Humvee taken from a supply truck heading to Afghanistan. He threatened suicide bombings in Pakistani cities in retaliation for a recent army offensive in the Swat Valley.