US drone strike kills five ‘militants’ in N Waziristan

US drones fired four missiles on a compound in Hurmuz area, east of Miranshah.


Afp October 10, 2012

MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike targeting a suspected militant compound killed five insurgents in North Waziristan near the Afghan border on Wednesday, security officials said.

The attack was the first since a massive anti-drone rally last weekend near the lawless region known as a stronghold of Taliban and al Qaeda militants, they said.

“Several US drones flew into the area before dawn and fired four missiles on a compound, killing five suspected militants,” a security official told AFP after the strike in Hurmuz area, east of Miranshah, the capital of North Waziristan tribal region.

Another security official in the northwestern city of Peshawar confirmed the attack and casualties.

The identities of those killed in the strike was not immediately clear.

The al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in North Waziristan, blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, is one of the thorniest issues between Islamabad and Washington.

The attacks by unmanned US aircraft remain contentious -- they are deeply unpopular in Pakistan, which says they violate its sovereignty and fan anti-US sentiment, but American officials are said to believe they are too important to give up.

COMMENTS (44)

Sexton Blake | 11 years ago | Reply

I wonder if the US would be so enthusiastically sending drones if a similar problem was occurring in Russia or China?

Pakistani | 11 years ago | Reply @mohturrum: r u oout of ur freaking mind.shame on u and ur philosophy
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