(Previous Incident Code: Ob276 )

In the first reported CIA action in South Waziristan since March 13, up to four people were reported killed in a strike targeting a motorbike in Khawashi Khel, 5km to the east of Wana. Security officials told AFP that alleged militants had been moving from one area to another near the Afghan border, and that ‘the US drone fired two missiles which completely destroyed the vehicle.’ Two members of Maulvi Nazir’s Taliban-aligned faction. The men were identified as local Taliban commander Khalil Yargul Khail (aka Jalil) and Rehmanullah Gangi Khail (aka Amanullah). According to a Bureau field investigation published in August 2013, the two men were on their way to the Rustam bazaar in Wana. A CIA drone fired two missiles at the pair – the first missed but second hit, killing both men. They were buried in the Gangikhel tribal graveyard – Rehmanullah was a member 0f the Gangikhel sub-tribe of the Ahmadzai Wazir. According to Bureau researchers he was a senior Taliban commander and was the brother of Commander Malang, a senior figure in Mullah Nazir’s fighting group.