[Pak Daily Times] A salvo of US missiles targeted gunnies in the Tribal Areas on Thursday, killing six forces of Evil returning from an jihad boy bastion in Afghanistan, security officials said.Six missiles slammed into the group in North Wazoo. The missiles targeted the group about 12 kilometres from North Wazoo's main town of Miranshah, in an area that borders Khost in eastern Afghanistan, a hotbed of bully boyz fighting US-led troops. "Several unmanned US aircraft fired six missiles targeting gunnies in Gulli Khel village near the Ghulam Khan district of North Wazoo," the official said .
He said the gunnies had been returning on foot from Afghanistan, although a local intelligence source in Miranshah said the US missiles targeted a compound of gunnies from the Haqqani network. Thursday's strike was the second this week, after a similar operation killed at least nine suspected forces of Evil near Miranshah on Sunday. Around 220 people have been killed in more than 40 strikes since September 3 straining relations with Islamabad already tense over reported US criticism of Pakistain's failure so far to launch a ground offensive in North Wazoo.
The covert US drone campaign in Pakistain dramatically increased in September as intelligence claims emerged of a Mumbai-style terror plot to launch commando attacks in European cities. The campaign is also seen as integral to US-led efforts to turn around a nine-year Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Afghan and US officials allege that gunnies with rear bases in Pakistain enjoy at least some measure of protection from the Pak intelligence services -- charges that Islamabad denies. During a recent visit to India, President Barack
B.O.Obama said Islamabad was making progress on tackling what he called the "cancer" of extremism but it was not happening quickly enough.