On 18 January 2008 , '' The Washington Post '' reported that the CIA has concluded that Mehsud was behind the Bhutto assassination . " Offering the most definitive public assessment by a U.S. intelligence official , Michael V. Hayden said Bhutto was killed by fighters allied with Mehsud , a tribal leader in northwestern Pakistan , with support from al-Qaeda 's terrorist network . " U.S. President George W. Bush then placed Mr. Mehsud on " a classified list of militant leaders whom the C.I.A. and American commandos were authorized to capture or kill . " In telephone interviews with news media Mehsud claimed responsibility for the 30 March 2009 attack on the police training academy in Lahore . He told the BBC that the attack was in retaliation for continued missile strikes from American drones for which the Pakistani government shared responsibility . In the same interview Mehsud claimed two other attacks : a 25 March attack on an Islamabad police station and a 30 March suicide attack on a military convoy near Bannu
attack on the police training academy
2009 Lahore police academy attacks
Baitullah Mehsud