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Saturday, November 21, 2009, Zil`Hajj 03, 1430

Latest drone attack kills 8 in NWA

Tariq Saeed

Peshawar—While the metropolis of NWFP continues to bleed as not a single day passes by when one area of Peshawar or the other does not bath in blood through suicide bomb blasts, adding salt to our injuries the notorious American drones again struck at Tehsil Mir Ali of North Waziristan Agency on Friday morning killing at least eight persons.

The American CIA operated drones fired a couple of hell fire missiles at Amzolae village on Datta Khel road some ten kilometres from NWA headquarters Miran Shah on Thursday wee hours which had left four people dead and equal number of others seriously injured.

Reports reaching here from Miran Shah said the US predators appeared on the skies of Michhi Khel area of Tehsil Mir Ali Friday morning and fired missiles at a compound which they suspected belonged to the militants.

As the compound was destroyed by the projectiles, at least eight people were reported killed and many others sustained injuries. The official sources, as usual, preferred to remain tight lipped over the incident.

The locals recovered the dead bodies and the injured from the debris of the compound while the Taliban are reported to have cordoned off the area.

There were no reports if any foreigner or the US wanted man was included among the victims while the people of the area say those killed by the American fire were the local tribals.

It would be pertinent to mention that the US have restarted drone attacks in the Waziristan agencies after a pause and at a time when the Security forces are already conducting operation against the insurgents in SWA for the last about more than a month and that too quite successfully.

While there has always been great resentment against the US attacks among the tribal folk, the militants allege that the drone attacks are carried out with the consent of the Pakistani authorities.

The militants have often threaten to avenge drones attack in the settled areas such as Peshawar which has long been bearing the brunt of the other’s adventurism.

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