US drone attacks kill seven in North Waziristan: officials

[The Northerner]

Two US drone strikes targeting a militant compound and a vehicle in North Waziristan killed at least seven suspected militants on Monday, officials said.

Both the attacks took place in Mir Ali town, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district beside the Afghan border.

Two US drones fired two missiles into a militant compound, and minutes later a second drone fired another two missiles at a vehicle close to the compound, officials said.

"At least seven militants were killed in both the US drone strikes. The vehicle was completely burnt and the compound was also destroyed," a security official in Miranshah told AFP.

A second security official in Peshawar confirmed both the drone strikes and the casualties.

Source: http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/16-May-2011/Eight-killed-in-US-drone-strike-in-N-Waziristan

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Yay! Another glorious victory! In a lost war. Can we come home now?

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2. The Obama Doctrine murders on

Better known as "close enough." And don't fret about the people killed by missiles they couldn't get away from, and had no warning were coming, because they were very, very bad people. If they weren't, this would be cold-blooded murder, but since that's impossible for our star-spangled fightin' men and women, each victim must have been very, very bad. Q to the E to the D, motherfuckers. Game over.