Huge news to say the least, Mehsud was responsible for sending Tehrik-i-Taliban fighters from Pakistan to kill Americans and other coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Via LWJ:

The US targeted the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan in a drone strike today in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. The strike is the second in the tribal agency in three days.

The CIA-operated, remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a compound in the village of Danday Darpa Khel in the Miramshah area of North Waziristan, Dawn reported. The strike killed “five suspected militants” and leveled the compound, according to the report.

Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, was the targeted of today’s strike. Hakeemullah’s bodyguard, who was identified as Tariq Mehsud, is said to be among those killed in today’s attack.

Unconfirmed reports also indicate that an unnamed “senior militant commander” was also killed. US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal said that they do not know if Hakeemullah was killed in today’s strike. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, which was quick to confirm the death of their deputy emir, Waliur Rehman, has not released a martyrdom statement for Hakeemullah.

Reuters has confirmed Mehsud was killed.