Drone aircraft have unleashed a fresh missile attack that has killed 12 people during the most intense period of US strikes in Pakistan since they began in 2004, intelligence officials said.
The stepped-up campaign that included Wednesday's strike is focused on a small area of farming villages and mountainous, thickly forested terrain controlled by the Haqqani network, a ruthless foe in Afghanistan, US officials said.
One official says there was some evidence the network was being squeezed as a result.
Two Pakistani intelligence officials said US missiles hit a house in Dargah Mandi, 2.5 miles west of the main town of Miran Shah, in North Waziristan, a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border.
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