A nice and somewhat unusual Tuesday U.S. predator drone strike has happened in North Waziristan today and the result is four dead Taliban. And as is the norm nowadays, the Taliban targets were NOT stowed away in a hut or a compound but were in a vehicle that was hit.
From the report at DAWN:
A US drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on Tuesday killed four militants, destroying their vehicle, local security officials said.
The strike took place in Spalga village, 15 kilometres south of Miramshah, the main town of the North Waziristan tribal district, near the Afghan border.
“It was a US drone strike, which targeted a militant’s vehicle, killing four rebels,” a senior local security official told AFP.
Things were relatively quiet this past weekend in North Waziristan so perhaps that was the CIA operators of the drone program taking time off to watch the Army-Navy football game, but they are back to work now!
I'm not sure about this but I'm thinking that part of the reason why so many of these drone strikes are now hitting vehicles is because the Taliban are trying to move from location to location more nowadays with the threat from above. Kind of the old bin Laden trick of changing locations nearly every day or so - the problem for the Taliban is that the intel is so good against them that the drones are simply watching their every move and in the end, they are twice as vulnerable in a vehicle as they are inside a mud compound.
US drone strike kills four militants in North Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH: A US drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on Tuesday killed four militants, destroying their vehicle, local security officials said.
The strike took place in Spalga village, 15 kilometres south of Miramshah, the main town of the North Waziristan tribal district, near the Afghan border.
“It was a US drone strike, which targeted a militant’s vehicle, killing four rebels,” a senior local security official told AFP.
Another security official confirmed the strike and said the drone fired two missiles.
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