Five Pakistani Taliban Won't Be Relaxing This Weekend, They'll Be Wandering The Tunnels of Hell Thanks To An American Hellfire

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but Friday has become the favorite day for U.S. predator drones to take out Taliban inside of Pakistan and today did not break that trend as a drone hit a Taliban camp along the border of Pakistan's South and North Waziristan provinces. The death toll of Taliban is five with four injured. And a key to this attack by the U.S. was that these were Baitullah Mehsud fighters...further evidence that the U.S. command has really zeroed in on Mehsud.

You'd think by now that on Friday's, the Taliban in NW Pakistan might want climb into some caves in the mountains and at least wait for Saturday (I hope they don't). Here's the story from AFP:

US strike kills five militants in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A US missile slammed into a suspected Taliban compound killing five militants on Friday in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani security officials said.
It was the fourth suspected US drone strike in nine days targeting alleged strongholds of Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud and comes with Pakistan widely expected to launch a ground offensive against his South Waziristan assets.
"The missile strike took place in Bahadur Kaley village, 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of Miranshah. One missile was fired from the US drone, which targeted a Taliban stronghold," one security official told AFP.
"Five militants were killed and four others were injured in the US drone attack," a local security official told AFP.
"They all belong to Baitullah Mehsud's group and this area was their stronghold," the official said.
"It is not immediately clear whether there were any foreign militants or some important militant figure among those who were targetted and killed," an intelligence official in the area added.
The targeted compound was located in a Mehsud redoubt on the border between the semi-autonomous tribal regions of South and North Waziristan.
Washington has put Pakistan at the heart of the fight against Al-Qaeda and has deployed thousands of extra troops in Afghanistan in a bid to stabilise the country for elections as part of a sweeping new war plan.
The United States military does not, as a rule, confirm drone attacks, but its armed forces and the CIA operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy unmanned aircraft in the region.
Suspected US attacks and Pakistani air strikes have increasingly targeted strongholds of Mehsud, described by the US State Department as a key Al-Qaeda facilitator in Pakistan's mountainous tribal region.
Pakistan has also carried out air strikes against Mehsud hideouts with commanders vowing to hunt down the warlord's militant network in the remote northwest region known as a base for Taliban and Al-Qaeda rebels.
But Islamabad has publicly opposed suspected US strikes, saying they violate its territorial sovereignty and deepen resentment among the populace. Since August 2008, around 50 such strikes have killed more than 500 people.
Washington alleges Islamist fighters hide out in the mountains near the Afghan border, plotting attacks on Western targets and crossing the porous frontier to attack foreign troops based in Afghanistan.
Mehsud has a five-million-dollar reward on his head offered by the United States, and a bounty of 615,000 dollars in Pakistan for allegedly masterminding multiple deadly bombings in the last two years.
About 2,000 people have died in Islamist bombings across the country since July 2007, when government forces besieged a radical mosque in Islamabad.