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Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into Pakistan on Friday killing at least 14 people, intelligence officials and residents said, in the first such strikes since Barack Obama became U.S. president.
There were separate strikes in the northwestern border regions of North and South Waziristan.
In the first attack, three missiles hit a house in a village 2 km (1 mile) west of Mir Ali, a major town in North Waziristan, the officials said.
"Nine bodies have been pulled out the rubble," Ismail Wazir, a villager told Reuters by telephone.
He said the owner of the house, two brothers and three nephews were among the dead while intelligence officials said some foreign fighters were also killed.
There was no information on the identify of the foreign fighters.
In the second strike, a suspected drone fired a missile into a house near Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, killing five people. Another security official said eight people were killed.
There was no sign the strikes hit any of al Qaeda's top leadership.
The United States carried out about 30 attacks with missiles fired by pilotless drones in 2008, according to a Reuters tally, more than half after the beginning of September.
The attacks killed more than 220 people, including foreign fighters, according to a tally of reports from Pakistani intelligence agents, district government officials and residents.
Pakistan objects to the attacks, saying they are a "violation of its territory and undermine its efforts to tackle fighters."
It had hoped the new U.S. administration would review the policy although during his election campaign Obama had spoken of the possibility of strikes into Pakistan if the Pakistani military was unwilling or unable "to tackle the militants".
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Pakistani tribesmen chant slogans against military operations and drone attacks in the tribal areas during a demonstration near the president's house and the parliament building in Islamabad January 23, 2009.
Reuters
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