U.S. missile strike killed five militants on Friday (8/1/10) in Pakistan's northwest, officials said. While a U.S. senator to defend such attacks that had fueled anti-American sentiment in the Muslim populated countries. A missile attack by a spy plane that made unmanned in Tappi village in North Waziristan, a militant base areas associated with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in the northwestern tribal region that was hit by the violence along the border with Afghanistan.
"Unmanned U.S. aircraft fired two missiles into a house. The house was destroyed," said a senior official told AFP security. "Five militants were killed and three others injured in the attack. A vehicle parked at the house also destroyed," said the official who is not willing to be named that.
Two intelligence officials in the area and a local government official also confirmed the attack and the death toll. "Militants were using the house as a place pesembunyian. All the dead militants were local residents and associated with Hafiz Gul Bahadur," said one official.
Hafiz Gul Bahadur was a militant who fought to defend the Taliban when the U.S. led forces invaded Afghanistan and is known to control the 2000 guerrillas sent across the border but did not launch attacks in Pakistan.
It is the fifth missile attack carried out spy plane unmanned U.S. this year, when the government of U.S. President Barack Obama put Pakistan as a center of guerrilla war against Al Qaeda and Muslim hardliners.
U.S. Republican Senator John McCain defended the attacks by saying, "We will continue to strive to achieve mutual understanding with the Pakistan government when we should be doing everything we can ... to protect Americans from terrorist attacks that may be headquartered here and operated outside Pakistan, "he said.
North Waziristan neighboring South Waziristan was attacked by the military.
Pakistani forces launched air and ground offensive into South Waziristan tribal region on October 17, to deploy 30,000 soldiers who assisted jet fighters and helicopter gun. Despite the resistance in South Waziristan, many officials and analysts believe that most of the Taliban insurgents had fled to the adjacent area of Orakzai and daerh North Waziristan.
Some analysts have also warned that the Taliban and their allies will increase the attacks against security forces in Bajaur and other tribal areas to divert the focus of attention from South Waziristan.
Security forces conduct large-scale operation against Islamic militants in the Mohmand and Bajaur in August 2008. In February, the military said that the Bajaur clean after fierce fighting in months, but unrest continued.
Pakistani tribal areas, especially Bajaur, hit by violence since hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants fled to the region after the US-led invasion in late 2001 toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
According to the military, more than 1,500 militants have been killed since they launched an offensive in Bajaur in early August 2008, including the operational commander of Al-Qaeda in the area, Abu Saeed Al-Masri is Egyptian.
The area was also hit by a missile attack near the Zawahiri, the second man Osama bin Laden, in January 2006.
U.S. forces said, the border area was used as a militant group to conduct training, regrouping and launching attacks forces against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
source : kompas.com
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