ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan killed nine people Friday, two Pakistani military sources said.
The strike happened about 12:10 p.m. in a village in North Waziristan, a region near the Afghan border that is rife with Islamic extremism, the sources said.
They spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Wes Robertson, acting spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan, had no comment on the suspected strike.
Suspected U.S. military strikes against militants in Pakistan have sparked outrage in Pakistan’s new national government.
On Monday, Pakistan’s new president, Asif Ali Zardari, and its prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, met with U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the senior U.S. military commander for a region that includes Pakistan and Afghanistan. Petraeus said he heard complaints from senior Pakistani leaders about U.S. military attacks on targets in Pakistan.
One week ago, on October 31, two suspected U.S. missile strikes killed 28 people in northwestern Pakistan, military sources and local intelligence officials told M.
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