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US drone attack kills 14 in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH: US drones fired a barrage of 12 missiles, destroying a training camp for extremists in Pakistan's tribal belt and killing 14 militants on Tuesday, security officials said.It was the second strike in the same mountainous area close to the Afghan border since Sunday, when the United States accused the Pakistani Taliban of being behind a plot to detonate a car bomb in Times Square 10 days ago.
The training camp was run by militants attached to Taliban-linked Afghan warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who is reputed to control up to 2,000 fighters who attack US-led forces over the border in Afghanistan, officials said.
The compound was in the Lowara Mandi area of North Waziristan district, seen as a fortress of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan's tribal badlands.
"According to the latest reports we have, a total of 14 militants were killed. They targeted a compound and vehicles parked outside the house," one senior Pakistani security official said on condition of anonymity.
Pakistani officials earlier put the death toll at six, saying that US drones carried out a series of strikes on the compound, firing at least 12 missiles.
The nationalities of the dead were not immediately clear, nor was there any information on any possible high-value targets.
A local official described the training camp at Inzarkas village as a collection of temporary mud-brick homes about 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.
More than 900 people have been killed in nearly 100 drone strikes in Pakistan since August 2008. The bombing raids fuel anti-American sentiment in Muslim Pakistan and draw public condemnation from the government.
Courtesy www.Geo.tv