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(FILES) In this photograph taken on July 23, 2010, a Pakistani journalist watches a newly released video of radical Pakistani cleric Maulana Fazlullah in Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban on November 7, 2013, have elected Maulana Fazlullah as their new chief following the death of the previous leader in a US drone strike. Fazlullah led the Taliban’s brutal two-year rule in Pakistan’s northwest valley of Swat in 2007-2009 before a military operation retook the area. AFP PHOTO/ A. MAJEED/FILES