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US drone strike kills three in Pakistan
A BOMBING raid by a US drone aircraft killed three militants today in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt, a bastion of Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked fighters.Security officials said the attack happened in the Dandey Darpa Khel area of North Waziristan, a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said. "It was a US drone strike, three militants were killed," one security official said. "The target was a militant compound." Two other security officials in the area confirmed the raid, refusing to be named because of the sensitivity of the strikes, which fuel anti-American sentiment in Muslim Pakistan. A US drone strike in the same area last Thursday killed Mohammed Haqqani, a brother of Al Qaeda-linked warlord Sirajuddin Haqqani, whose network is fighting against US and local forces in neighbouring Afghanistan. Posted by: tipper 2010-02-24 |
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