[Pak Daily Times] At least eight people were killed and 15 others maimed in festivities between security forces and faceless myrmidons in Federally Administered Tribal Areas, officials said on Monday. Four faceless myrmidons and one soldier were killed when faceless myrmidons stormed a security forces checkpoint late on Sunday in Miranshah... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, the main town of restive North Wazoo Agency (NWA). The army retaliated with an assault early on Monday on suspected terrorist hideouts outside the town, but the attack left three civilians dead and 15 maimed, security officials said. "Militants attacked our checkpoint in Miranshah on Sunday evening and killed one soldier, we retaliated... and rubbed out four beturbanned goons," a security bigshot told AFP. On Monday morning "we fired shells and destroyed five shops in Datakhel near Miranshah" from where military convoys had recently come under attack, he said. Two security officials confirmed the civilian deaths in Monday's attack, but the military refused to do so. "Three non-combatants were killed and 15 were maimed when the security forces fired shells at the suspected beturbanned goon hideouts," one of the officials said on condition of anonymity. Terrorists have killed more than 4,800 people across Pakistain since government troops raided Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad in July 2007. US officials say Pakistain's tribal districts provide sanctuary to the Taliban fighting a 10-year war against foreign troops in neighbouring Afghanistan and to al Qaeda-linked faceless myrmidons plotting attacks on the West.