"Baitullah's brother shot dead"

"five bullets to his head and back". Sounds like an execution.

I wonder if it's a message to Baitullah...."if we can get to your family, we can get to you".

Maybe it's al Qaida's handiwork, perhaps they're upset about all the talk that the taliban is ready renounce al Qaida and OBL? However, if it was al Qaida I think it would be more probable that they would've chopped the guy's head off as per the quran.

Or maybe it's our special forces operating inside Pakistan who offed Baitullah's brother. (Thanks to Kafir Alalazoo)

Nation

BANNU - Police recovered the body of Baitullah Mehsud’s younger
brother, Yahya Mehsud, riddled with bullets here in Domail area on Sunday. Some persons informed the police about the body in Nala Kasho area. The police reached there and handed over the body to Mehsuf family after identification.

The family of Baitullah Mehsud shifted the body to Daud Shah but upon the proposal of Baitullah, it was again shifted to South Waziristan for burial. The deceased Yahya Mehsud was the father of two sons and a daughter. AFP adds: Yahya bin Haroon was abducted by armed men from his hometown in Bannu early morning and his bullet-ridden body was later found dumped in a roadside drain, senior police officer Mohammad Alam Shinwari told AFP. He received five bullets to his head and back, the officer said.

Police later identified the slain man as the brother of Mehsud, who leads the country’s umbrella Taliban organisation, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Shinwari said.

The reason for the murder was not immediately clear, he said. Residents said Yahya, 35, was not involved in Taliban activities and people opposed to Mehsud may be involved in the killing of his brother.