Former Radio Preacher Now Leads Violent Pakistani Taliban

Mullah Fazlullah, leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has seen his Islamist ideology change profoundly.   From a fiery village preacher, Fazlullah has morphed into heading a faction that has added one brutality after another to its list of attacks. The December 16 attack on a Peshawar school that left 132 children dead is just a recent reminder of how brutal the Taliban can be under Fazlullah. In Swat, also home to Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai, Fazlullah had  modest...

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