.- Six suspected rebels were killed Sunday in an attack by U.S. drones apparently conflict in the tribal area of North Waziristan, in Pakistan near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said. This military action took place at a time when at least two thousand tribal people, many of them students, were holding a protest in Mir Ali, one of the main towns in North Waziristan.The protesters demanded an end to attacks because they said drone kill innocent civilians. The rebels have effective control in North Waziristan and whether they were active in organizing the protest. United States publicly acknowledged the drone attacks that launched the CIA, but officials privately insist that these actions are mostly accurate and rebels have destroyed the Taliban and al Qaida.
However, they are credible reports that these attacks have caused civilian casualties. In the first attack, a drone fired two missiles at a car and a house in the village of Mada Khel Doga with the result of four suspected insurgents dead, officials said intelligence. The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to make statements to the press.
Hours later, another drone fired two missiles that wiped out a couple of foreigners suspected rebels on a motorcycle in the same village, officials said. Unknown identities of the suspected insurgents killed in Doga Mada Khel, who control the powerful fighters loyal to rebel leader Hafiz Gul Bahadur.
Bahadur's group and other rebels in North Waziriztán regularly launch attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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