Pakistan
This Nov. 26, 2008 photo taken in Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan shows Hakimullah Mehsud who has become the leader of Pakistani Taliban faction a...
This Nov. 26, 2008 photo taken in Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan shows Hakimullah Mehsud who has become the leader of Pakistani Taliban faction after death of Baitullah Mehsud. The Pakistani Taliban acknowledged Tuesday that the militants' top leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was dead, ending weeks of claims and counterclaims over his fate following a U.S. missile strike on his father-in-law's home this month.(AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud)
Pakistan Afghanistan
Pakistani officials receive the coffin of a Pakistani engineer who was killed by bomb blasts in Kandahar, as it arrives at the Pakistani border town ...
Pakistani officials receive the coffin of a Pakistani engineer who was killed by bomb blasts in Kandahar, as it arrives at the Pakistani border town of Chaman on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. A cluster of vehicle bombs detonated nearly simultaneously near a Japanese construction company in the southern city of Kandahar Tuesday, killing at least 41 people, flattening buildings and sending flames shooting into the sky. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)
Pakistan
Children stand beside a burned Pakistani tanker, which was carrying fuel for NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan, after it was allegedly attacked by ...
Children stand beside a burned Pakistani tanker, which was carrying fuel for NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan, after it was allegedly attacked by militants on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
Pakistan
A local resident looks at a burning Pakistani tanker which was carrying fuel for NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan, after it was allegedly attacked...
A local resident looks at a burning Pakistani tanker which was carrying fuel for NATO forces fighting in Afghanistan, after it was allegedly attacked by militants in an area of Pakistani Khyber tribal region, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Qazi Tariq)
A suspected U.S. drone attack killed at least six people and wounded another nine in northwestern Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region Thursday, intelligence officials said.
Two missiles were fired at a suspected militant hide-out in the stronghold of top Taliban commander Waliur Rehman, two intelligence officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
They said their information showed that Taliban fighters were removing the bodies from a destroyed compound.
It was not clear whether the missile strike, in the Kani Guram area of South Waziristan, was aimed at any particular Taliban commander. The same area was hit on Aug. 11 in an attack that killed at least eight people, intelligence officials said at the time.
The United States is suspected of having launched more than 40 missile attacks from unmanned planes on al-Qaida and Taliban targets close to the Afghan border since last year, reportedly killing several top commanders, but also civilians.
Earlier this month, one such strike killed Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
