Yep. Four Taliban were offed today in Pakistan's North Waziristan agency when a vehicle and a compound were targeted and hit by a U.S. predator drone.
From the report at DAWN:
A US drone strike targeting a vehicle in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on Monday killed at least four militants, local security officials said.
The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles, hitting a vehicle and a guest house of a local tribal elder in the Nurak area of North Waziristan, the Pakistani officials told AFP.
The area is within the notorious tribal badlands that Washington calls a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
“The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at the vehicle and killed at least four militants in the strike,” one security official told AFP on the condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to speak to media.
“A guest house of a local tribal elder was also destroyed in the attack. However, it was not immediately known if there was anybody inside the guest house at the time of the attack,” he added.
The security official said initial reports suggested that a group of militants were travelling in the vehicle at the time of the attack.
You know, there just isn't much better than a Toyota pickup loaded to the gills with Taliban when a American-made hellfire missile sinks its teeth into the transmission. My guess is that all of those killed were actually in this vehicle as it sounds like the compound target may have been empty.
But alas, four dead Taliban is certainly worth the trip for the drone.
US drone attack kills four militants in North Waziristan
MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike targeting a vehicle in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on Monday killed at least four militants, local security officials said.
The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles, hitting a vehicle and a guest house of a local tribal elder in the Nurak area of North Waziristan, the Pakistani officials told AFP.
The area is within the notorious tribal badlands that Washington calls a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
“The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at the vehicle and killed at least four militants in the strike,” one security official told AFP on the condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to speak to media.
“A guest house of a local tribal elder was also destroyed in the attack. However, it was not immediately known if there was anybody inside the guest house at the time of the attack,” he added.
Nurak area is 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town of the district of North Waziristan, considered a militant stronghold.
The security official said initial reports suggested that a group of militants were travelling in the vehicle at the time of the attack.
Two other Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed the drone strike and death toll. Washington has called Pakistan’s semi-autonomous northwest tribal region the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda, where Taliban and other Al-Qaeda-linked networks have rear bases from which they launch attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan.
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You'd think after all these years of hellfires raining down on them that these guys would disband or consider a career change.
Scrap metal dealers must be doing a heck of a business in the Waziristans.
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