4 Killed In Attack in Pakistan

Miranshah, Pakistan Four militants were killed in the attack unmanned U.S. aircraft in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, Monday, security officials said. Unmanned aircraft fired three missiles into Darazinda village, 40 miles northeast of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan. Four militants were killed in the attack, said a security official. "Unmanned aircraft fired a missile at militants who were riding two motorcycles and two colleagues when they came toward them, two more missiles were fired," he said. "All the four militants were killed." 

Two other security officials confirmed the number of victims by saying, missiles fired by unmanned aircraft. The attack is the second within 24 hours in the area, known as guerrilla bases of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and the 15th in a time of 18 days. 

Four people were killed Sunday when an unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at a vehicle traveling in the tribal region.U.S. missile attacks killed about 100 militants since 3 September in the region, which was mentioned in Washington as the most dangerous place on Earth. 

U.S. officials have waged war with unmanned aircraft against the commanders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in the northwest tribal region, where militants were hiding in the mountainous areas which are outside the direct control of the Pakistani government. U.S. officials said the unmanned plane is a very effective weapon for attacking the militants. But civilian casualties are falling in the attacks have angered Pakistan's population. 

Around 1100 people were killed in more than 130 unmanned aircraft attack in Pakistan since August 2008, including a senior militant. However, it strikes the battle has waged an anti-American sentiment in the conservative Muslim country. Enhance U.S. missile attacks by unmanned aircraft into North Waziristan after a Jordanian suicide bomber attacked a U.S. base across the border in Khost province, Afghanistan, in late December, which killed seven employees of the CIA. 

Pakistan's increasing international pressure to crush militant group in the northwest and tribal zone amid rising attacks cross-border guerrillas against international forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan's tribal areas, particularly Bajaur, plagued by violence since hundreds of Taliban and Al-Qaeda rebels fled to the region after the US-led invasion in late 2001 toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan. 

Pakistani forces launched air and ground offensive into South Waziristan tribal region on October 17, 2009, with 30,000 soldiers who assisted jet fighter and helicopter guns. Although there is resistance in South Waziristan, many officials and analysts believe that most of the Taliban insurgents had fled to neighboring areas of North Waziristan and Orakzai. 

North Waziristan is the stronghold of the Taliban, militants linked to Al Qaeda and the Haqqani network, which is famous for attacking American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and the U.S. make that area as a target of missile attacks unmanned aircraft. Some analysts have also warned that the Taliban and their allies will be stepped up attacks on security forces in Bajaur and other tribal areas again to shift 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 2009, the army said that the Bajaur net after fierce fighting in months, but unrest continues. According to the military, more than 1,500 militants have been killed since they launched an offensive in Bajaur in early August 2008, including Al-Qaeda's operational commander in the area, Abu Saeed Al-Masri is an Egyptian. 

The area was also hit by a missile attack that almost about Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second person, in January 2006. U.S. forces declared, that border area is used for militant groups as a place to do training, a rearrangement of forces and launch attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan .(AFP)