(Previous Incident Code: Ob95 )

An alleged US strike in Mizai Nari, south Waziristan, killed up to 12 people – hereof 11 possible civilians – along with up to ten other injured, local and international media reported.

While reports agreed that up to 12 people were killed in the strike, they were conflicting in terms of who were killed. Some reported between five and 12 militants fatalities while others maintained that 11 civilians, including women, were killed in the strike.

According to some, al-Qaeda’s Osama bin Ali bin al Dawsari and local Taliban leader Omar Khaitab were reported to be among the dead. Dawn reported: “Dawsari was reportedly killed when he was attending a meeting in the house of Omar Khaitab, a close associate of militant commander Maulvi Nazir. Local people said that Khaitab, two other tribesmen and an Afghan national were killed in the attack.” Also, four militants were reported wounded.

Meanwhile, The Nation reported that “residents of the area said those killed were not militants and were from a local family,” and Xinhua said that six women were killed along with ten injured, including two women and several children.

In January 2014 the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published a secret Pakistani record of CIA drones trikes. It listed this strike, saying seven locals and two non-locals were killed.

All known sources said that the strike was the work of the US. THE Long War Journal reported in detail that the strike was carried out by “unmanned Predators or the more deadly Reapers.”