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| US drone attack kills 10 in Pakistan: officials |
| 2009-09-25 |
| Update on yesterday's drone zap count. A US drone attack on Thursday killed 10 militants from a network fighting Western troops in Afghanistan at their compound in Pakistan's tribal belt, officials said. "One missile fired by a US drone hit the house of Afghan national Ahmad Afghani," said a Pakistani security official. There were unconfirmed reports that one the sons of former Soviet resistance commander in Afghanistan, Jalaluddin Haqqani, is called Ahmad. "We are investigating whether it was the son or not," a security official told AFP after the attack in Dandy Darpa Khel area, five kilometres (three miles) northwest of Miransha in the North Waziristan tribal district. The targeted building acted as an office where militants would come to receive orders and rest between bouts of fighting across the border in Afghanistan, local residents and Pakistani intelligence officials said. |
| Posted by:ed |