(Previous Incident Code: Ob96 )

According to international and local media, a US strike killed up to three militants as a house in Norak, North Waziristan, was struck from the air. However, survivors later reported that four male civilians also were killed in the strike.

Initial reports said two or three foreign militants were killed in the strike. And three names named members of al Qaeda later emerged however it is not clear if the three were killed in Ob96 or Ob97. A press release from the Taifatul Mansura Group named three men killed in a US drone strike on June 10 or June 11 as: al Qaeda’s Sheikh Ihsanullah; Abu Ibrahim, ‘a commander of the Fursan i Mohammed Group’; and Harun – described as a Turkish fighter.

Subsequently, lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar, representing a surviving family member, identified four previously unreported Pakistani civilians also killed in the attack: Saed Kamal, the house owner, and three neighbours, Amanullah, Sahib Rehman and Sakhi Rehman – the latter two most likely related. In a case placed before the UN Human Rights Council in February 2012 Akbar stated:

“Mohsin is a resident of Sara Alunah, Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan. On Thursday, June 10, 2010, he was at his house with his brother, Syed Kamal, his neighbors Syed Amanullah, Sahib Rehman, and Sakhi Rehman. At 7pm a drone aircraft fired a missile at his house, destroying part of the building and a nearby car. His brothers and his neighbors were all killed. None of Mohsin’s family or any of the other victims have any connection to terrorist activity or organizations.”

All known sources agreed that the US was behind the strike.