(Previous Incident Code: Ob4 )

In the first reported CIA attack on Kurram Agency, a 9am strike using at least 3 missiles killed at least 18 people. Local resident Rehman Ullah said he saw 30 bodies pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed in the strike. Anonymous informants said the Taliban ordered 30 coffins from the local bazaar. However the Taliban themselves said only 12 people were killed in the attack. The local political administration confirmed 18 deaths – internal FATA secretariat records showed 18 people were killed and six injured in a strike on ‘a residential compound in a deserted refugee camp’. Abdul Rahim, a cleric in Sarpul, also claims to have seen 20 wounded.

The target was reportedly a camp run by Afghan Taliban commander Bahram Khan Kochi. However, tribal elders reported that civilians also died, claiming at a jirga that ’innocent people had been killed in the strike.’