First Pakistan drone attack in weeks kills seven

[The Straight Story]

A U.S. drone strike killed at least seven people on Monday in a tribal region along Pakistan's western border, Pakistani officials said, the first such attack in a month as a diplomatic feud strains U.S.-Pakistani ties.

At least four missiles were fired from the unmanned aircraft at a suspected militant training centre in Azam Warsak, just west of Wana, the main town in the South Waziristan tribal agency, intelligence officials in South Waziristan said.

"According to initial reports there were foreigners among the dead," one of the officials said.

A second official said the foreign nationals killed included three people from Turkmenistan and two Arab nationals.

It is the first time since January 23 that intelligence officials have reported a U.S. drone attack, marking a resumption of a campaign that has become the centrepiece of U.S. efforts to halt militants launching attacks on its soldiers in Afghanistan.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/uk-pakistan-drone-idUKTRE71K0TR20110221

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