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US drone attack kills 11 in Pakistan
A fresh US drone strike has left at least 11 people dead and several others wounded in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials say. A US drone fired missiles into a suspected militant hideout in North Waziristan on Friday, DPA reported. "The drone attack completely destroyed" its target, an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. Washington claims its airstrikes target militants, but most of the attacks have killed civilians -- since August 2008, such strikes have killed nearly a thousand people in rural areas. The issue of civilian casualties has strained relations between Islamabad and Washington with the Pakistani government repeatedly objecting to the attacks. Posted by: Fred 2010-05-29 |
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