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Suspected US missile kills four militants in Pakistan: official
AFP - 1 hour 22 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - - A missile strike by a suspected US drone killed at least four militants early Saturday in a northwestern Pakistani tribal district known as a stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban, officials said.
An Al-Qaeda operative was among those killed in the strike 15 kilometres (ten miles) from the town of Marali, amid Taliban militant warnings of revenge attacks across Pakistan for the strikes.
"The strike destroyed a militant hideout in the village of Alikhel in North Waziristan," a senior security official who declined to be named told AFP.
Local officials said the missiles struck the house of a local tribesman, while a security official said the house was used as a hideout for Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants.
The latest strike came shortly after Taliban militants based in the rugged tribal territory bordering Afghanistan warned of reprisal attacks across Pakistan if there were more suspected strikes by the US.
Earlier this week a major Arab Al-Qaeda operative was among six militants killed in another suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan, the latest in a line of attacks.
Abdullah Azam al-Saudi, a senior member of Osama bin Laden's terror network, had been identified by US intelligence as the main link between Al-Qaeda's senior command and Taliban networks in the Pakistani border region.
Terror network chief bin Laden is also widely believed to be hiding in the rugged region, although there is no clear information about his whereabouts.
Washington has seemingly stepped up its missile strikes on the region since March, when a civilian government took over from General Pervez Musharraf, who turned Pakistan into a close US ally in the "war on terror".
Recent strikes against suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban hideouts, all blamed on unmanned CIA drones, have come despite warnings from Pakistan that such attacks violate international law and could deepen resentment of the United States in the world's second-largest Islamic nation.
Pakistan has officially protested to the United States that strikes violate its sovereign territory, although some officials say there was a tacit understanding between the two militaries to allow such action.
President Asif Ali Zardari recently promised zero tolerance against violations of his country's sovereignty.
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