Posted on 09/29/2009 4:09:37 AM PDT by csvset
A missile fired from a US drone aircraft Tuesday killed five suspected Taliban in a strike on a militant hideout in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal belt, security officials said.
"A missile from a US drone fired on a compound of local Taliban commander Irfan Mehsud killed five militants and injured six," said a security official in the area. A local administrative official confirmed the incident and toll.
The attack occurred in the lawless tribal region of South Waziristan, a Taliban bolthole where Washington says Islamist fighters are hiding out and planning attacks on Western troops stationed in neighbouring Afghanistan.
That’s a bit of good news.
Wonder why only one missile was used. Six wounded suggests a boy was sent to do a man’s job.
Just as long as no innocent cvilians were upset.
Suspected U.S. drone attacks kill 12 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Two suspected U.S. drone aircraft killed 12 militants, including foreigners, in missile strikes on Tuesday in Pakistan's Waziristan region on the Afghan border, intelligence officials and residents said.
The latest missile strike was the third in northwest Pakistan in less than 24 hours and came as the U.S. administration was weighing options for how to deal with an intensifying Taliban insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan. Northwestern ethnic Pashtun tribal lands on the Afghan border, including North and South Waziristan, are sanctuaries for al Qaeda and Taliban militants.
On Tuesday evening, a pilotless drone aircraft fired a missile at the house of an Afghan militant, who Pakistani intelligence officials said was linked to Afghan Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, in the North Waziristan region.
"It was an accurate strike. Seven bodies have been recovered from the debris. Most of them were Afghan militants," said a Pakistani intelligence official in the region, who declined to be identified.
He said six militants were wounded and militants had sealed off the area and were not letting anybody approach.
Hours earlier, two missiles fired by another drone aircraft struck a Pakistani Taliban commander's house in South Waziristan, killing three Pakistanis and two Uzbeks militants, another intelligence official said.
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