(Previous Incident Code: Ob245 )

The CIA’s drones again returned to the Danda Darpakhel area, with a strike on a vehicle initially reported to have killed three Egyptian alleged militants and possibly up to five. No civilians have yet to be reported killed or injured. Local villagers told The News that ‘three men standing and talking to each other near the car were the targets of the missile attack. All three were killed.‘ The Egyptian Islamic Group later reported the death of Ahmed Omar Abdul Rahman, son of the blind sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.  While some sources claimed Rahman died in Afghanistan, Reuters cited a senior Taliban commander as confirming his death in this strike. Associated Press also reported the death of ‘a 28-year-old man named Abdullah who played a key role in handling the financial affairs of the Haqqani Network… He was known locally as Nadeem.’

In April 2012 Abu Miqdad al Masri, a member of the Quetta Shura, was revealed to have died in the strike, along with his two sons Al Miqdad Rafie Mustafa and Khalid Rafie Mustafa (of indeterminate age). Their deaths were announced by al-Masri’s widow in an al Qaeda martyr statement.

In January 2014 the Bureau published an internal Pakistani document listing most of the CIA drone strikes. It was compiled by the local administration using reports from informants spread through the tribal agency. It said three ‘non-locals’ were reported killed in this attack.