(Previous Incident Code: Ob3 )

Between 25 and 35 people were reported killed – the Taliban said 25 Uzbek militants alone were killed – and at least 11 people were injured, local media reported.

This first Obama strike against the Pakistan Taliban (TTP) and its leader Baitullah Mehsud, struck the house of Malik Rosan, a madrassa and also a vehicle.

The New York Times reported “it was unclear if any civilians where killed in Saturday’s strikes, which residents say also hit a madrassa”.

One confirmed civilian death was that of 8-year old boy Noor Syed, the son of Maezol Khan who died after being hit by flying shrapnel. Local photographer Noor Behram, who visited the attack site and attended Noor’s funeral (see below), later wrote: “The strike was apparently intended for a car that was near the house and the child was killed by a missile part flying into the house.”

In video testimony the dead child’s grandfather later asked: ‘”How can the US invade our homes while we are sleeping, and target our children?”

A case laid before the UN Human Rights Council in February 2012 stated: “Maezol Khan is a resident of Makeen in South Waziristan, Pakistan. In the early morning of February 14, 2009, he and his son were sleeping in the courtyard of their home when a missile from a drone struck a nearby car. As a result of the explosion, a missile part flew into the courtyard, killing Maezol’s eight-year-old son. In addition, there were approximately 30 people killed or injured in the attack.”

The Bureau’s Waziristan researchers also identified eight further civilians they say were among those killed, named as “Masal, Mehboob, Waris, Wasim, Ihsan, Javed and Tahir. They were all from the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe. The name of the 8th person who was killed couldn’t be confirmed.”