A US drone strike on Monday destroyed a vehicle in Pakistan’s Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked stronghold of North Waziristan on the Afghan border, killing seven militants, officials said.
The attack took place on the outskirts of Mir Ali, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of the district where US officials want Pakistan to launch an offensive against networks fighting in Afghanistan.
“A US drone fired two missiles which hit a vehicle. At least seven militants have been killed,” one security official in Peshawar told AFP.
Another intelligence official in Miranshah said two drones fired four missiles, hitting a van and killing at least seven militants.
“I do not know whether there was a high-value target. We received reports that those killed in the van were all foreigners,” he said.
Monday’s attack was the eighth to be reported in Pakistan’s tribal areas near the Afghan border since US commandos killed Saudi-born terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in a secret raid in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on May 2.
Missile attacks doubled in the area last year, with more than 100 drone strikes killing over 670 people in 2010, compared with 45 strikes that killed 420 in 2009, according to an AFP tally.
Most have been concentrated in North Waziristan where the United States wants the Pakistan military to launch a ground offensive as soon as possible.
Pakistan says its troops are too overstretched to mount such an assault and that any campaign will be of its own time and choosing.
The United States does not confirm drone attacks, but its military and the CIA in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy them in the region.
The Pakistani parliament has called for an end to US drone strikes and said there must be no repeat of the operation that killed bin Laden, despite the fact that President Barack Obama has reserved the right to act again.
The raid also rocked Pakistan’s seemingly powerful security establishment, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or complicity over the presence of bin Laden close to a military academy.
Fuck you CIA
Don’t abuse CIA ,
abuse ur own politcian…..ok
vampire politcian,contract killers.
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First,Jawad Hussein.Pl do not use American slang .If you are promoter of American,westren dictionary, better use such expression in American or Western media. Do you use such language in your home before your family? Please abstain in future and thanks.
Coming to drone attack ,America is up to similar game as in Libya. The nation is not getting united due to the worst ever coalition fraudulent government of PPP-Zardari,ANP,ML-Q,MQM. These are the deadliest drones which has lead us to this pass and MQM topping it with its loyalists,myopic,venomous,purple blind 24 hour propagandists in TV channels as ARY,Express,Dunya,CNBC,partly Geo,Newsone etc who have for many years misled and CONFUSED THE nation to justify its wrong stances as supporting Musharraf and the worst ever corrupt government of PPP-Z which has enslaved Pakistan to IMF,drones,UK,USA,NATO etc and enemies of Pakistan. The role of MQM pliant media in both electronic and print has been extremely destructive.
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