By Francesca Infante PUBLISHED: 08:44 EST, 2 November 2013 | UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 2 November 2013 The Pakistani Taliban have voted to promote number their number two commander to replace leader killed by American drone yesterday. Khan Said, known as Sajna, will replace leader Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed along with three others in a strike by a U.S. drone, militant commanders and security sources have confirmed. Said is believed to have masterminded an attack on a jail in northwest Pakistan that freed nearly 400 prisoners in 2012 and an attack on a Pakistani air force base in the same year.
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Khan Said, known as Sajna, will replace leader Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed along with three others in a strike by a U.S. drone on Friday
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Pakistani Taliban fighters secretly buried him early this morning amid  fears that his funeral might also become a target for US drone attacks
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Moves to rapidly to replace him come as the Taliban promise a wave of suicide bombs in revenge for his death
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