Reuters: Suspected U.S. drone kills up to 20 militants [in Pakistan]

Remember, Pakistan "objects to the U.S. strikes on its territory saying they violate its sovereignty and increase support for the militants."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles on Monday into a Pakistani region on the Afghan border that is a stronghold of a Pakistani Taliban leader, killing up to 20 militants, intelligence officials said.

Suspected U.S. drones have carried out more than a dozen such missile attacks on militant targets on the Pakistani side of its border with Afghanistan since the beginning of September, killing dozens of people.

"Two missiles were fired, they hit two houses in Shakai and up to 20 militants were killed," said one of the Pakistani intelligence agency officials, referring to an area in the South Waziristan region that is a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

The intelligence agency officials, who declined to be identified, had no details about the identity of the militants in the houses hit by the missiles.

The Pentagon said it had no information on the drone strike.

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