Abu Majid al Iraqi and Sheikh Abu Waqas Al Yamani, two members of Al Qaeda, were among the nine killed in US drone attack on Friday in South Waziristan. Pakistani officials said that the death toll from the recent US drone strike in the restive tribal region had risen to 9. All the people killed were militants, officials said. Two intelligence officials said that three members of the Pakistani Taliban movement wounded in the Friday strike on a militant compound had died overnight. They had originally put the death toll at six. The officials said their field informants confirmed two members of Al Qaeda, Abu Majid Al Iraqi and Sheikh Abu Waqas Al Yamani, were among the dead. They said the remaining seven were all members of Pakistan’s branch of the Taliban.
