Suspected U.S. drone fires missile into Pakistan area

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/22/08 | Haji Mujtaba

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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected U.S. drone fired a missile into a Pakistani village in North Waziristan tribal region early on Thursday, a Reuters witness said, the latest in a series of such attacks in recent weeks.

The strike targeted a village near Waziristan's main town of Miranshah where Jalaluddin Haqqani, a veteran Taliban commander and an old friend of Osama bin Laden, had established a madrasa or religious school and where his extended family used to be living. There was no immediate word on casualties.

"A large number of militants are rushing toward the area in vehicles," the Reuters witness told Reuters by telephone from Miranshah.

Twenty-three people, mostly relatives of Haqqani, were killed in a similar attack in the same area in September.

The U.S. forces, frustrated over growing cross-border militant attacks from the Pakistani side, have carried out around a dozen missile strikes and a commando raid in Pakistani tribal areas since the start of September.

A large number of militants have been killed in these attacks but no senior al Qaeda or Taliban commander is reported to have died so far.

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“A large number of militants are rushing toward the area in vehicles,”

Sounds like it is time for a follow up missile strike.

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Pakistani soldiers arrest an al-Qaeda supporter in South Waziristan. A suspected US drone fired two missiles into a Pakistani tribal area that is a known Al-Qaeda and Taliban hub, killing at least five people. (AFP/File/Jewel Samad)

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AFP reports

Suspected US strike kills six in Pakistan: officials

An artist's impression shows a US Navy unmanned surveillance drone. Suspected US spy drones have fired missiles into a restive Pakistani tribal area on the border with Afghanistan, killing six people, security officials have said. (AFP/HO/Northrup Grumman)