Tuesday, March 8, 2011

US Predators kill 5 in South Waziristan


Unmanned US Predators struck inside Pakistan's tribal areas for the first time in 11 days. The strike killed five "militants" in the tribal agency of South Waziristan.

The Predators or the more heavily armed Reapers fired two missiles at a compound in the village of Landidog about 12 miles west of Wana, the main town in South Waziristan. The compound is owned by "a local tribesman named as Fazal Karam, Dawn reported.

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