4 foreign militants killed in Pakistan missile strike

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Four foreign militants were killed in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials said Tuesday. The men were identified as Abu Qasim, Abu Musa, Abu Hamza and Abu Haris, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of their job. It was unclear what rank the men held with the Taliban or al-Qaida. Officials said the death toll from Monday's missile strike rose to 20 after residents and militants pulled more bodies from the rubble of a seminary and houses in a village in the North Waziristan region. Citing informers, they said the dead also included a wife and a sister of senior Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani and at least four children. Another 18 people were wounded.