[Pak Daily Times] Missiles fired from a US drone killed 13 terrorists and seven civilians in North Waziristan on Monday, intelligence officials said.The strike hit the Dandey Darpa Khel area, about five kilometres from Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan.
The officials said the missiles were fired at a terrorist hideout. Most of the terrorists killed were members of the Afghan Taliban. Four women and three children were among the dead, said the officials. "The missiles hit a terrorist compound and a house adjacent to it. We have confirmed reports of 20 dead," said one of the intelligence officials.
Another official said members of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network -- one of the most effective militant forces fighting Western troops in Afghanistan -- had been using the compound.