The attack took place in the Mir Ali area, some 35 kilometers east of 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 North
Wazoo tribal district, a hub of Taliban and al-Qaeda linked myrmidons.There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the motive of the attack was not clear but myrmidon groups in the past have carried out suicide kabooms against each other in the tribal belt.
Qari Saifuddin, a local Pak Taliban capo, was travelling in a pick-up truck along with his associates when a suicide bomber smashed his explosive filled car into their vehicle.
"Taliban capo Qari Saifuddin and his six associates were killed on the spot," a local security official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
North Waziristan is one of seven semi-autonomous tribal regions along the Afghan border, which Washington considers to be a major hub of Taliban and al-Qaeda gunnies plotting attacks on the West and in Afghanistan.