Taimikhan, I looked at the record of drone strikes kept by the Long War Journal. There have been at least 15 drone strikes against Baitullah Mehsud's group/allies since 2008:
12 killed in second US strike in North Waziristan - The Long War Journal
1) 8/25/2009. Hakeemullah and Waliur Rehman Mehsud said that Baitullah died on Sunday night from wounds suffered in the Aug. 5 US Predator strike in South Waziristan.
2) 7/3/2009. The US killed 13 Taliban fighters in a pair of airstrikes in Baitullah Mehsud's territory in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan.
3) 7/10/2009. The US conducted yet another Predator airstrike against Baitullah Mehsud's forces in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency in South Waziristan.
4) 7/17/2009. The US launched another Predator airstrike against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies.
Today's strike took place in the village of Bahadur Kaley in the Garyaum region in North Waziristan, about 20 miles south of the main town of Miramshah.
Earlier this year, Bahadar united with Baitullah Mehsud and South Waziristan Taliban leader Mullah Nazir to form the United Mujahideen Council.
5) 6/23/2009. The US carried out its second Predator airstrike inside South Waziristan today. Unmanned Predator aircraft killed more than 65 Taliban fighters in a follow-on attack near the headquarters for Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
6) 6/18/2009. The US conducted two separate airstrikes in Mullah Nazir's territory in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. The strikes mark the second and third attacks in South Waziristan since Jun. 14 after a one-month hiatus in the Predator campaign. The regions where today's strikes took place are run by Mullah Nazir, one of the two top Taliban commanders in South Waziristan. Nazir is a former rival and now ally of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
7) 6/14/2009. For the first time in a month, the US conducted a Predator airstrike inside Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies.
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Todays strike is the twentieth inside Pakistan this year. Twelve of this year's airstrikes have taken place in South Waziristan, four were in North Waziristan, two were in Kurram, one was in Arakzai, and one more was in Jani Khel in Bannu, where al Qaeda is thought to have hosted its Shura Majlis, or executive council.
The region is run by Mullah Nazir, one of two senior Taliban commanders in South Waziristan. Nazir is a former rival and now ally of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
8) 5/9/2009. The US launched a covert airstrike against a Taliban safe house in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan.
A swarm of unmanned Predator attack aircraft fired four missiles at a compound run by Taliban forces loyal to Baituallah Mehsud in the town of Sararogha, a US intelligence official told The Long War Journal.
9) 4/19/2009. The US launched an attack against a terror training camp in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. The town of Wana is a stronghold of South Waziristan Taliban commander Mullah Nazir, a former rival and now ally of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
10) 3/25/2009. US Predators killed eight terrorists, including "foreigners," in an attack on a Taliban convoy in South Waziristan. The attack took place in Makeen, the hometown of Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. Baitullah sheltered in a safe house in Makeen run by Anwar Shah at the end of December 2008 after claiming credit for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Today's strike is the sixth recorded attack against camps and compounds in Baitullah's tribal areas.
Although The New York Times reported that a Predator strike on Feb. 14 was the first such attack against Baitullah Mehsud and signaled an expansion of the air war, the report is incorrect. There were three US strikes in Baitullah's tribal areas between July 2008 and January 2009.
11) 3/1/2009. Unmanned US Predator attack aircraft fired two Hellfire missiles at a Taliban compound in South Waziristan today. The strike was carried out in the village of Hebat Khan in the Sararogha region, Geo News reported. Sararogha is located in the tribal areas controlled by Pakistan leader Baitullah Mehsud.
12) 2/14/2009. The US launched an airstrike inside of Pakistan's tribal areas early Saturday morning, ending a 24-day lull in attacks against Taliban and al Qaeda networks inside Pakistan. An unmanned US Predator strike aircraft fired two missiles into a compound of a Taliban commander based in the town of Malik Khel in the Ladha region of the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. Ladha is in the eastern half of South Waziristan in a region controlled by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. There were at least two other strikes in Baitullah's territory in South Waziristan during 2007, and another strike this year.
13) 1/2/2009. The US has struck for the second time in two days in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. Lahda is in the eastern half of South Waziristan in a region controlled by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. There were at least two other strikes in Baitullah's territory in South Waziristan during 2008. (14) In mid-June, a strike hit a Taliban safe house in Baitullah's hometown of Makeen. (15) In mid-October, a Predator strike took place in the village of Saam, also in the Ladha region.
The TTP are NOT a USA asset!!!!