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(LWJ) — Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed seven “militants” in the Miramshah area of Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today in the first strike in a week.
The CIA operated drones fired a pair of missiles at a compound used by “militants” in the village of Spalga near Miramshah, according to AFP. SAMAA reported that seven people were killed and seven more were wounded in the strike. The exact target of the strike has not been disclosed, and the identity of those killed is not known.
Senior terrorists are known to have sheltered in the village of Tapi in the past. The US has struck at targets in the village four other times since the end of 2009, according to data on the strikes that has been compiled by The Long War Journal.
Saleh al Somali, al Qaeda’s operations chief, was killed in a US drone strike in Spalga on Dec. 9, 2009. Al Somali was a longtime al Qaeda operative who was present in Mogadishu during the nfamous Black Hawk Down incident that resulted in the deaths of 19 US troops and hundreds of Somalis during an operation to detain a warlord in the capital in the fall of 1993.