Three more killed in NWA as US drone bloodbath continues

The missiles also destroyed a compound in a mountain, officials said.The attack took place in Darpakhel Sarai, just outside Miranshah the main town of North Waziristan, the most notorious bastion of Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Pakistans semi-autonomous tribal belt.Covert CIA drones are the chief US weapon against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants, but most of the people killed by drones are civilians, including women and children.A drone fired two missiles on a compound. At least three people were killed, a senior Pakistani security officials said.He said those killed were loyal to Jamil Haqqani, an important Afghan commander in the Haqqani network whom US officials said was killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan on October 13.A US official at the time named him as Janbaz Zadran, saying he played a central role in helping the Haqqani network attack US and coalition targets in Kabul and southeastern Afghanistan.Other intelligence officials in Miranshah and the northwestern city of Peshawar confirmed Thursdays missile strike and casualties.Three other wounded militants were pulled out of the rubble and taken to hospital, witnesses said. One of them was carried out on a cot by seven to eight militants enveloped in dust.The latest attack is the 61st US drone strike reported in Pakistan so far this year -- a programme that American officials refuse to discuss publicly and which has been dramatically ramped up under President Barack Obama.