Sweet.
Via Long War Journal:
The US launched its first drone airstrike inside Pakistan in more than two weeks, killing four “militants” today in an area of Pakistan that has been under Taliban control for eight years.
The CIA-operated, unmanned Predators or the more heavily operated Reapers fired a pair of missiles at a compound in Tabai outside of Miramshah, a stronghold of the Haqqani Network. Pakistani intelligence officials told AFP that four “militants” were killed. The compound was “suspected of being a militants’ hideout,” according to Xinhua.
The exact target of the strike has not been disclosed. No senior Taliban or al Qaeda operatives have been reported killed in the strike.
Miramshah serves as the headquarters of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, a powerful Taliban subgroup that operates in both Afghanistan and Pakistan and is supported by Pakistan’s military and its Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. The Haqqani Network is one of four major Taliban groups that joined the Shura-e-Murakeba, an alliance brokered by al Qaeda late last year.