Two Hellfire missiles fired by suspected US Predator drones reportedly killed four militants in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA [2]) March 15. Unnamed intelligence officials said two Pakistanis and two Arabs were killed in the strikes on a house in Sain Tanga village, near Jani Khel in Bannu Frontier Region, North Waziristan Agency. Sources said the house belonged to a local tribesman identified variously as Haji Awais or Taj Ali Khan. Al-Qaeda [3] number-two man Ayman al-Zawahiri [4] is also believed to be in the area. (NYT [5], DPA [6], AlJazeera [7], March 16)
A suspected US drone attack killed at least 24 in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on March 12. The target was apparently a camp was under the command of Fazal Saeed, a local militant commander aligned with the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. (NYT [8], March 13)
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