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US drone strike kills four in Pakistan
A US drone attack targeted Islamist fighters in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Wednesday, killing four militants and blowing their vehicle into a fireball, security officials said.

Two righteous missiles kaboomed slammed into the technical vehicle in a suburb of the thriving metropolis of Miranshah, the main wild west town in the North Wazoo Waziristan district, considered by the ISI Pakistan's premier secret lair fortress of beturbanned Islamist terrorists militants and the focus of a dramatic increase in US drone zaps strikes.

Pakistani officials said the four militants were inside the vehicle, which was destroyed, and that a nearby house in the Qutub Khel suburb was damaged.

"The drone strike killed four militants," a security official in Miranshah said on condition of anonymity.

Another security official said the vehicle had been loaded with arms and ammunition.

"It detonated in the attack and the vehicle caught fire - nobody can go near the vehicle," he said.
At least not until the fire is put out ...
A burning car in the suburbs of Pakistan's tribal belt? Nobody is going near the thing until it burns itself out -- the volunteer fire fighters have to cover an awful lot of territory in those parts, I should think.
Wednesday's attack was the second in three days, after a similar strike killed at least five militants in North Waziristan's Mir Ali area 25 kilometres east of Miranshah.

Around 200 people have been killed in nearly 40 strikes since September 3, heightening tensions with Islamabad over reported US criticism of Pakistan's failure so far to launch a ground offensive in North Waziristan.
Posted by: tipper 2010-11-03
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