'Facilitator' of Taliban School Attack Killed in Pakistan

Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who allegedly facilitated the Peshawar school massacre, which left 150 people dead in the country's worst ever terror attack, officials said today.
Named only as 'Saddam', the militant was killed on Thursday night in a gunfight with security forces in the restive Khyber tribal area, which borders the northwestern city of Peshawar where last week's horrific attack took place.
'Commander Saddam was a dreaded terrorist, who was killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces in Jamrud town of Khyber tribal region,' top local administration official Shahab Ali Shah told a press conference in Peshawar.
'Six of his accomplices were injured and arrested.'
He added that Saddam is believed to have facilitated the school attack, although the extent or capacity of his alleged involvement was not yet known.
'Authorities are currently interrogating the injured terrorists,' Shah said.
He described Saddam as an important commander in the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and said he had masterminded several bomb attacks..