Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Beheading
Location: North Waziristan, Pakistan
Death Toll: 5
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Taliban

CNN reports:

Residents Friday found four beheaded and bullet-riddled bodies with a handwritten note nearby accusing them of spying for the U.S. and the Pakistani military, said Muthar Zeb, the top government official in North Waziristan.

He said residents found the bodies dumped along a road. Zeb said the body of another man accused of spying was found near the town of Mir Ali.

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North Waziristan is believed to be the operating base of pro-Taliban militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani and Pakistani Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar, both of whom are suspected of fomenting the insurgency against U.S. troops across the border in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani army says many Taliban fighters who fled last year's military offensive in another tribal region, South Waziristan, have also taken refuge in North Waziristan.

The Pakistani military has yet to launch an offensive against militants in North Waziristan because it says its troops are spread too thin with at least ten other military offensives in the region.