Up to three missiles struck a house in a Pakistani region known as a safe haven for al Qaeda and Taliban militants on Sunday, killing 12 people including foreign militants, local officials said.In no particular order, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawarhi and Adam Gadahn would be my favorites choices to be among the dead.
The attack took place in a village in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border.
"Eight foreigners and four of their supporters were killed," said a district government official who declined to be identified.
The nationality of the foreigners was not known but some resident of the area said Arabs were among the dead.
A military official said earlier militants were believed to have been hiding at the house and seven of them were killed and several wounded.
It was not clear who fired the missiles but villagers said they had heard the sound of a pilotless drone in the sky before the blasts.
U.S. forces have fired missiles at militants on the Pakistani side of the border several times in recent years.
A missile believed fired by a U.S. drone killed 13 suspected militants in South Waziristan in late February.
On January 28 one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed in a strike in North Waziristan.
CNN reports up to 20 people dead.
At least 20 people were killed in a missile strike near the Afghan border on Sunday, state-run Pakistan Television said.Ed Morrissey has more.
The strike destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader, according to a local tribesman.
Seven missiles were fired in the strike in the tribal area of South Waziristan, the television report said.
The report did not indicate where the missiles came from, but U.S.-led coalition forces based in neighboring Afghanistan have launched attacks inside the Pakistani border in the past.
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