Pakistan: Three insurgents killed by a U.S. drone

Three insurgents were killed Monday by a U.S. drone missiles in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan, where the unmanned aircraft of the CIA are regularly al-Qaedaal-Qaeda and the Taliban, according to security officials.

The attack targeted a vehicle in the tribal district of Kurram, which borders Afghanistan. "The U.S. drone fired two missiles, three insurgents were killed and the vehicle was completely destroyed," said AFP by telephone from a senior military official in the region, on condition of anonymity.

The attack occurred in the area of ​​Kharh Dhanda and balance sheet have been confirmed to AFP by his peers. Kurram district borders with the Afghan provinces of Khost, Paktia and Nangarhar, Afghan Taliban strongholds, including the Haqqani network, the bane of U.S. forces that make up over two thirds of the international force from NATO in Afghanistan .

Pakistani tribal areas of northwest are the stronghold of the Taliban allied with al Qaeda, the main shrine in the world of al-Qaeda network, and the rear base of the Afghan Taliban, including the Haqqani network.

The CIA drone attack very often the remote, mountainous tribal districts.

These strikes have not dried up since a helicopter-borne U.S. commandos secretly killed Osama bin Laden in northern Pakistan on May 2, and have even increased since early June, making fifty dead, officials said suspected insurgents .

The Pakistani Taliban have pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda in 2007 and launched the same year and in tune with bin Laden himself, their jihad against Islamabad for supporting the "war against terrorism" in Washington since late 2001. They are allied with the main responsible for a wave of nearly 500 attacks that killed more than 4,400 people across Pakistan over the past four years.