(Previous Incident Code: Ob248 )

In later reports, four ‘locals’ were reported killed during the Ob248 and Ob249 strikes. Sources close to Maulvi Nazeer said the commanders had gone to Angoor Adda near the Afghan border earlier in the morning along with three-dozen militants to fight against the Nato forces in Paktika province. The militants had forgotten something important in Wana, the headquarters of South Waziristan, and decided to go back to Wana and bring the material in the vehicle. The militants were passing through the mountainous Tor Korai area near Azam Warsak when their pickup truck came under attack of the CIA-operated spy planes. There were many travelling in the truck, suggesting others may have been killed.

Although Nazir’s group has signed a formal peace agreement with Pakistani forces, the US considered it a foe because of ongoing militant operations inside Afghanistan. Recent strikes appeared to have been targeting Nazir’s command structures. The News reported that Nazir himself attended the funeral prayers for the commanders, allegedly saying: ‘To me, all of them were like brothers. Their loss is as heartbreaking as the death of my brother Hazrat Omar.’