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US strike kills four in Pakistan: officials
17 JULY 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan A US missile slammed into a suspected Taliban compound in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border Friday, killing four people, Pakistani security officials said.
"The missile strike took place in Bahadur Kaley village, 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Miranshah. One missile was fired from the US drone, which targeted a Taliban stronghold," one security official told AFP.
"Four people were killed in the US drone strike. A missile from the US drone targeted a Taliban compound," said another Pakistani official.
The identity of the dead was not immediately known, nor was it clear whether any high-value target was present in the area at the time of the attack, two security officials told AFP, confirming the death toll of four.
A local intelligence official had earlier said three people were killed.
The missile targeted a compound in a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud on the border between the semi-autonomous tribal regions of South and North Waziristan, the officials said.
Source: AFP
"Just to clarify, Miramshah is in North Waziristan, and Baitullah Mehsud is based in South Waziristan, so this was likely an attack on Gul Bahadur or AQ's camps, not BM."
True but the target was 30km south of Miramshah and very near the S.Waziri border. Things probably get a bit hazy along the edges and this may, indeed, have been an attack on Mehsud people.
..There should be a second strike when millitants go to get the bodies.[/QUOTE
non sense
Why dont you condem double standards of US , self claimed campian of soverenity and democracy.
These drone attacks will not be able to give any tengible sucess of ISAF forces but further increases their problems and increase insurgency inside Pakistan.
US should stop this stupidity now enough is enough.