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Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 6 in NW Pakistan

   VOA News 22 May 2010
   Pakistani  tribesmen  gather  around  an  injured boy at a hospital in
   Miranshah,  the  main town in North Waziristan on following a US drone
   attack, 22 May 22 2010

Photo: AFP

   Pakistani  tribesmen  gather  around  an  injured boy at a hospital in
   Miranshah,  the  main town in North Waziristan on following a US drone
   attack, 22 May 22 2010

   Pakistani  intelligence  officials  say a suspected U.S. drone missile
   strike  in  the tribal region on the Afghan border has killed at least
   six people.
   The  attack took place overnight in a village near Miranshah, the main
   town in North Waziristan.
   Officials  say  the  missiles  targeted  a  house  owned  by  a  local
   resident.   At  least five women and two children were wounded in the
   strike.
   The  United  States  has  increased its use of drone strikes to target
   al-Qaida  and  Taliban  hideouts  in  the tribal belt along the Afghan
   border.   The Pakistan government has objected to the strikes, saying
   the  attacks  are  a  violation of its sovereignty, and fuel anti-U.S.
   feeling in the country.
   This  was  the fifth such strikes in the region since a Pakistani-born
   U.S.  citizen was arrested for a failed car bombing in New York City's
   Times Square.  U.S. officials say the Pakistani Taliban played a role
   in directing the failed attack on May 1.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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