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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam US drone strike kills 10 in Pakistan's tribal belt AFP - 1 hour 14 minutes ago Send IM Story Print MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - – Ten militants were killed Sunday in a US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal area, officials said, as the US attorney general linked the Pakistani Taliban to a failed New York car bomb. The strike by two missiles in North Waziristan came after the head of US and NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, urged Pakistan's army chief on Friday to quickly start a military offensive against militants in the same tribal district, according to the New York Times. On Sunday US Attorney General Eric Holder said Washington had evidence that Pakistani Taliban were behind a failed car bomb attack in the heart of New York City. The drone missile strike, the latest of dozens of such attacks, targeted Inzarkas village, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, which lies by the Afghan border. "The missiles struck a militant compound in the village," a senior Pakistani security official in the area told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another security official confirmed the strike and casualties but said the nationalities of the dead were not yet known. "The compound became suspicious as it was being used by foreigners," he said. "It was, however, not immediately known if any high-value target was present in the area at the time of attack." Pakistani officials use the term "foreigners" for Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the tribal regions. The United States has been waging a covert drone war in the tribal belt, where militants have carved out havens in mountainous areas outside direct government control. More than 900 people have been killed in over 100 drone strikes since August 2008. Waziristan has come under renewed scrutiny due to suspected links between the area and Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American arrested and charged with the attempted bombing of New York's Times Square on May 1. According to the US authorities, Shahzad, the 30-year-old son of a retired Pakistani air force officer, admitted to receiving bomb-making training in Waziristan. US media reports said his family knew at least two key Pakistani militants involved in terrorist activities. On Sunday the US attorney general clearly linked Shahzad to the Pakistani Taliban, telling ABC television: "We've now developed evidence that shows that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attack." "We know that they helped facilitate it. We know that they probably helped finance it, and that he was working at their direction," said Holder. Pakistani army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said earlier that a link between Shahzad and Waziristan had "yet to be established". Top US officials warned Pakistan after the failed Times Square car bombing that it must crack down on Islamic militants or face severe consequences, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Citing unnamed US and Pakistani officials, the newspaper said McChrystal met Pakistani military commander General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in Islamabad on Friday and urged Pakistan to quickly begin a military offensive against the Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda in North Waziristan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Pakistan, in remarks published Friday, that it faced "very severe consequences" if a terror plot like the Times Square bombing were traced to the country. North Waziristan is a fortress of Al-Qaeda, Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, and the affiliated Haqqani network, set up by Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani and now effectively run by his ambitious son Sirajuddin. The militants in the area are believed to be fuelling the nearly nine-year insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan. 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