Allright! A great way to start the week off as 4 Taliban jihadis from Turkmenistan were taken out in their vehicle in North Waziristan, Pakistan today by a U.S. predator drone. More than likely, the four were on their way to either bomb a girls' school or behead some little old lady.
This marks just the second drone attack since the moratorium on the strikes by the U.S. about two months ago...hopefully, this will mean a slow but sure uptick in these attacks. Perhaps the fact that the Taliban executed 15 Frontier Corps troops the other day will encourage the Pakistani government to look the other way for a couple of weeks.
The story is from DAWN.
US drone strike kills four in North Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH: A US drone fired missiles into a vehicle, killing four militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region on Monday, security officials said.
The attack took place at Degan village, some 25 kilometres west of Miramshah, the main town of North Waziristan, the officials said.
“A US drone fired two missiles into a vehicle and four militants were killed,” a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Local intelligence officials said the dead militants were from Turkmenistan, but their exact identities were not immediately known.
“The vehicle burst into flames after the missiles hit. Militants have cordoned the area and (are) taking out the bodies,” a local official told AFP.
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