(Previous Incident Code: Ob8 )

Up to eight people were killed, six “Arabs and Uzbeks” and five were wounded in an alleged US led attack on alleged militants in two cars as they were about to cross a bridge, local media reported.

The house of Haji Dost Muhammad aka Noor Mohammad was also reported destroyed. He and Maulvi Shafiq, both playing host to those killed, may have been killed or injured in the attack.

Journalist David Rohde, being held captive by the Taliban at the time, was caught up in the strike and later wrote a powerful first-hand account:

“The missiles had struck two cars, killing a total of seven Arab militants and local Taliban fighters. I felt a small measure of relief that no civilians had been killed… Several days after the drone strike near our house in Makeen, we heard that foreign militants had arrested a local man. He confessed to being a spy after they disemboweled him and chopped off his leg. Then they decapitated him and hung his body in the local bazaar as a warning.”