Wazoo and 16 in Khyber Agency when planes pounded their hideouts in the two volatile regions on Tuesday, the military said."In a precise aerial strike in Dattakhel area
... which is owned and operated by Hafiz Gul Behadur...
of North Waziristan in the afternoon, 53 bad boys, including 12 foreigners, were killed. Six hideouts, an ammunition dump and seven explosives-laden vehicles were destroyed," said an ISPR statement.
The jet fighters targeted bad boys' positions in Kharh Tangi, some 35km west of the agency headquarters of Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
. Most of the foreigners killed were Uzbeks, military sources said.
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In another strike in the same area later, 23 bully boyz were killed, the ISPR claimed.
Since the area is off-limits to journalists, it is difficult to independently verify the number and identity of the dead.