Wazoo on Monday, destroying compounds and a vehicle in the deadliest drone strikes for months, officials said.Qazi's turbans will be out burning flags any time now...
Three strikes were reported just days after Pak officials said they believed senior al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri had died in a similar attack late Friday, also in South Waziristan which borders Afghanistan.
Washington has called Pakistain's semi-autonomous northwest tribal region the most dangerous place on Earth and the global headquarters of al Qaeda.
The first strike killed seven Islamic fascisti in the early hours in Shalam Raghzai, 10 kilometres northwest of Wana, the district's main town.
A second slammed two missiles into a compound in Wacha Dana, 12 kilometres northwest of Wana, killing eight krazed killers, Pak officials said.
| The combined toll of 18 made Monday's drone strikes the deadliest reported in Pakistain since a salvo of US missiles killed at least 35 people on March 17. |
"A US drone fired two missiles on a krazed killer vehicle killing three rebels," a senior Pak security official told AFP of the third attack.
Another official warned the corpse count could rise further. The combined toll of 18 made Monday's drone strikes the deadliest reported in Pakistain since a salvo of US missiles killed at least 35 people on March 17.
Initial reports suggested that some foreign Islamic fascisti may have been killed and that Pak Taliban were also targeted on Monday.
One of the demolished compounds was near a madrassa and just south of the Ghwakhwa area, where Kashmiri, one of al Qaeda's most feared operational leaders, was reportedly killed days earlier.
Monday's attacks bring to 12 the number of strikes reported in Pakistain's tribal areas since US commandos killed al Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden
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in a raid in the garrison city of Abbottabad on May 2.