Suspected US drone fires missile into Pakistan area

Suspected US drone fires missile into Pakistan area
22 Oct 2008 21:58:48 GMT
Source: Reuters
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Oct. 23 (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 towards 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.

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