(Previous Incident Code: Ob6 )

For the second time in a month the CIA’s drones struck Kurram Agency. Multiple strikes on a ‘TTP compound’ killed at least 14 people. Four or five missiles were fired in the strike according to a record of drone strikes collected by the local political administration. The compound was reportedly run by local commander Fazal Saeed Haqqani, who survived. The entire complex caught fire according to one report.

A mosque’s loudspeakers were used to warn local residents off approaching the compound for fear of more drone attacks. The BBC reported that ‘Taleban guards said that some of those in the camp were hostages the Taleban were holding’ and the house of tribal elder Malik Jamil was also reported damaged. The CIA later briefed senior Pakistani officials on this attack, according to Bob Woodward in Obama’s Wars.

In October 2013 the Bureau obtained a document identifying 20 people killed in the strike. It was a record of most of those killed in the strike, created by Pakistani local government officials. Many of those who died in the strike have been described as militants, but eye witness reports gathered by the Bureau also suggest that children died.

The document named the dead as: Zaitullah, Qadim Khan, Mohammed, Syed Amin, Ahmad Saeed, Zahid ur Rehman, Zia Uddin, Mohammed Saleh, Lal Mat, Ajab Khan, Abdul Hafeez, Orakzai Khan, Sabir, Sheekamil, Zahid Khan, Israfeel, Abdul, Dilawar Khan and Sadiq Ullah

Two eyewitnesses independently identified several men whose names matched those on the document – it is unclear if they are civilians. They identified Ahmed Said, 22-23 years old, a student at Peshawar University. The witnesses also identified Zahid Rehman, aged 21 or 24-25, ‘a student at FSA government degree college Sadda’. They also identified two children: Munawa, 15, and Shahidullah, 16, though one witness also identified a Shahid – which could be a shortened version of Shahidullah – who was ‘about 20′. They also gave independent specifications on civilians killed, one stating that six children had been killed and one stating that three women and two children had been killed.