A suspected US missile strike Friday killed at least three
foreign militants in the northwest Pakistan stronghold of
a local Taliban commander, a senior security official said.
The strike was the second in as many days in the South Waziristan
tribal area on the border with Afghanistan, where hundreds
of extremists fled after the US-led invasion in late 2001
that toppled the Taliban regime in Kabul.
There have been more than two dozen such strikes on northwest
Pakistan since August, sparking angry government criticism
of the United States, a close ally which is believed to be
launching the missiles from unmanned CIA aircraft.
"Two missiles were fired on Taliban offices near Ladha
village in South Waziristan, killing three foreign militants
and wounding two others," the security official told
AFP.
The official, who said the death toll could rise, had no
details on the nationalities of the foreigners.
