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India-Pakistan
US Drone Strike Kills 4 Militants in Pakistan, Security Officials Say
2012-05-27
[Tolo News] A US drone attack early Saturday killed at least four bully boyz in a northwestern Pak tribal district bordering Afghanistan, security officials said.

The strike is the third such attack in the region in four days, with a total corpse count said to be around 13, but as high as 17.

The attack took place at a house near Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the main town of North Wazoo tribal district, a known hide-out of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked Death Eaters, the Pak officials said.

"A US drone fired two missiles at a house and at least four bully boyz were killed," a security bigshot told AFP.

"The identities of the bully boyz killed in the drone strike were not immediately known," he added.

Two other officials confirmed the attack to AFP.

Pakistain's semi-autonomous northwestern tribal belt is considered by the US to be the main hub of Taliban and al Qaeda bully boyz plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.

Pakistain says the missile attacks are counterproductive and violate its illusory sovereignty.

At least four bully boyz were killed on Wednesday by a US Arclight airstrike, followed by another five to nine deaths by a drone attack on Thursday, both in the same region.
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