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Abdullah Mehsud
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Abdullah Mehsud

Abdullah Mehsud (Pashto: عبدالله مهسود‎; Urdu: عبدالله محسود‎; 1977 – 24 July 2007) was a member of the Mahsud tribe in South Waziristan, and a Pashtun militant commander who killed himself with a hand grenade after security forces raided his dwelling in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan.American authorities later claimed that he had originally been a prisoner in the Guantanamo bay detainment camps, who was judicially released and subsequently "returned to the battlefield".

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