Three bullet-riddled bodies were dumped on a roadside in Datta Khel village, 35 kilometres west of Miramshah, the main town in North
Wazoo tribal district, local administration official Wahab Khan told AFP.The body of another primitive was found in Mir Ali village, 25 kilometres east of Miramshah, Khan said.
"The bodies had multiple bullet wounds and were mutilated," Khan said and added that notes found on bodies said Taliban had killed them because they were spying for the United States.
Another report said the bodies were found with notes outlining their alleged role in the March 17 drone strike. The notes warned that anyone who helped the US would face a similar fate.
That would tend to discredit the claims that the deaders were all just local village wise men, gathered to solve some local problem and play cards.
| Assuming that anything in the notes is true... |
"Ayyup! They're deader'n rocks, all of 'em."
Militants frequently kidnap and murder rustics in the troubled region on alleged charges of spying for the Pakistain government or US forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, where Taliban fighters have been waging a vicious insurgency for nine years.
North Wazoo is a known hub of Taliban and al Qaeda-linked Death Eaters where the United States wants the Pakistain military to launch a ground offensive as soon as possible. Pakistain has consistently countered that its troops are too overstretched to launch an assault there.