Monday, May 10, 2010

Intel officials: American missiles kill 10 in Pakistan

The Guardian/UK, May 9, 2010

RASOOL DAWAR, AP foreign

Associated Press Writer= DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) —

Suspected U.S. missiles struck a house in Taliban-dominated northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 10 people in the latest American strike targeting militant leaders, intelligence officials said.

The strikes were in North Waziristan, a tribal region that has long been a haven for Taliban- and al-Qaida-linked militant networks battling American and NATO forces across the border in Afghanistan. The suspect in the recent failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square has claimed he trained in a militant camp somewhere in Waziristan.

Two Pakistani intelligence officials said the two missiles hit the house of local tribesman Awal Gul in Enzer Kasa village of the Datta Khel area.

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