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| U.S. drone kills five insurgents in Miranshah |
| 2012-02-16 |
| At least five insurgents were killed in a US drone strike in northwest of Pakistani on Thursday, local officials said. The strike took place in Miranshah near Afghan border, Pakistani security officials said. A security official said that two missiles were fired by a US drone on a compound used by militants in Spalga town near Miranshah in which five militants were killed. Miranshah is the main town in North Waziristan region, known as stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda linked of militants. Pakistan, after a Nato air strike on 26 Nov. 2011 on two Pakistani checkpoints near Afghan border that killed 24 Pakistani troops, blocked the Nato supply route into Afghanistan and asked US officials to vacate Shamsi airbase which was used for US drone operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. US resumed drone operations on January 10. Recently many insurgents have been killed in US drone strikes in Pakistan. US officials recently said that eight of al-Qaeda's top 20 leaders were eliminated in the past year, mostly in US drone strikes. |
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