Tag: Documented
Khadizai (Orakzai Agency) Drone Attack – Apr 2009
What Happened? 01 April 2009: The first-ever U.S. drone attack in Orakzai Agency targeted a house in the Khadizai area. The CIA alleged that the attack had targeted Al Qaeda militants. The house reportedly belonged to Moulvi Gul Nazeer, a prominent Taliban commander. The Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud reported that six Taliban fighters were killed…
Zeraki (N. Waziristan) Drone Massacre – Jan 2009
What Happened? 23 January 2009: A U.S. drone strike targeted a house in the Zeraki area of Mirali in North Waziristan Agency. The house reportedly belonged to a civilian Khalil Khan Dawar where a family meeting was taking place. While the CIA claimed to have killed five Al-Qaeda militants in the attack, fieldwork by a…
Sultana Maidan (S. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Jan 2009
What Happened? 02 January 2009: A U.S. drone strike targeted an abandoned girl’s school in the Sultana Maidan area of South Waziristan Agency. A 500-lb laser-guided GBU-12 ‘Paveway’, a bunker busting munition, was used for this attack. The CIA alleged that the attack killed two al-Qaeda operational chiefs including Usama Al-Kini and Sheikh Ahmed Salim…
Machis (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Oct 2008
What Happened? 11 October 2008: A U.S. drone missile struck a house in the Machis area of North Waziristan. The attack is reported to have killed 4 people, all of them non-locals and militants. This casualty count is corroborated by local media report from Dawn and a secret document issued by the FATA Secretariat in…
Jani Khel (FR Bannu) Drone Attack – Dec 2007
What Happened? 03 December 2007: A highly targeted U.S. drone missile struck the location of Egyptian Al-Qaeda leader Sheikh Issa Al-Misri in the Jani Khel area of Frontier Region Bannu. It was reported that Misri was only injured in this attack. This attack was never reported on any local or international media. The existence of…
Saidgi (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Apr 2007
What Happened? 27 April 2007: Either a U.S. drone or an airstrike targeted a home on the outskirts of a school (Dar Ul Uloom Hassania) in Saidgi, North Waziristan. The attack killed 4 people who were reported as civilians by local eyewitnesses. This attack took place around 3:30AM. U.S. forces had targeted the principal of…
Khaisori (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Dec 2005
What Happened? 01 December 2005: A U.S. drone-launched hellfire missile struck a house in the North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas. The attack killed at least two children and one woman, along with Abu Hamza Rabia and two men who were alleged by the CIA to be militants. This was the second…
Musakki (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Nov 2005
What Happened? 05 November 2005: A U.S. drone missile struck the house of a Abu Hamza Rabia in the Musakki area (outside Mir Ali) in North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan. Rabia was an Al-Qaeda leader of Egyptian origin, widely considered to be Al-Qaeda’s third-in-command. Rabia was only injured in this attack, but his wife and…
Tori Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – May 2005
What Happened? 08 May 2005: A U.S. drone missile targeted a car in the North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas. The victims included Haitham Al-Yemeni, an al-Qaeda leader connected to Osama Bin Laden, and an aide named Sami Ullah Khan. This is the first known U.S. drone attack in North Waziristan Agency.…
Wana (S. Waziristan) Drone Attack I – Jun 2004
What Happened? 18 June 2005: A U.S. drone missile struck a house in a hamlet of Shah Nawaz Kot in the South Waziristan Agency of Pakistan’s federally administered tribal area (FATA). The attack is reported to have killed a Nek Muhammad and four of his companions. Nek was an Afghan militant with ties to the…