Hellfire in North Waziristan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A US drone attack destroyed a vehicle in Pakistan’s tribal district of North Waziristan on Friday, killing at least three suspected militants, Pakistani security officials said.
Two missiles slammed into the vehicle in the semi-autonomous northwestern district considered the heartland of Islamist militants in Pakistan and the focus of a dramatic increase in US drone strikes since early September.
Pakistani officials reported the attack as US President Barack Obama and NATO leaders flew to Lisbon for a summit designed to set a date to hand control of the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan to local forces in 2014.