Air raid eliminates nine in Pakistan :)

At least nine people have been killed in an airstrike on suspected militant targets in Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan, local officials say.

Pilotless US drone aircraft are thought to have carried out the attack in which missiles were fired at a house near the town of Wana on the Afghan border.

Local Taliban fighters are reported to be among the dead. The area is a Taliban and al-Qaeda stronghold.

Pakistan says its army is preparing a full-scale assault on the area.........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8106686.stm