(Previous Incident Code: Ob142 )

Four militants were killed and others were injured in a US led airstrike on Khaisoori, local media reported.

Al Qaeda’s Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, a Libyan, was reported killed along with Khalid Mohammad Abbas al Harabi and Qari Hussain Mehsud, the deputy chief of the Pakistan Taliban (TTP). However, al Rahman was subsequently reported killed in August 2011 (Ob238).

The TTP described as Qari Hussain as a martyr. However he had been reportedly killed in October 2010 (Ob137) and emerged alive, and his name remained on the US State Department’s terrorist lists in 2011. He was reported dead again in a strike on October 15 2010 and in December 2013 he was eulogised by the TTP.

A car and house were destroyed in the strike, which may have been in retaliation for the December 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan.

No civilian harm was reported.