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According to an article on MSNBC.com:

A second suspected U.S. missile strike on Wednesday struck at least five vehicles carrying Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, intelligence officials said Wednesday. Officials told NBC News that as many as fifty people may have been killed in the attack. Earlier, ten militants were killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike in the same region.
The intelligence officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
There have been at least five suspected American missile attacks in South Waziristan over the last two weeks, an uptick that suggests Washington is also trying to kill or weaken Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and his followers in the run-up to the Pakistani campaign. Despite the apparent convergence of interests, Pakistan's army insists it is not coordinating with the United States. It says the American missile attacks are hurting its attempts to kill or capture Mehsud because they alienate local tribesman they are trying to enlist in their campaign against him. The United States is believed to have launched more than forty missile strikes against targets in the border area since last August that have killed several hundred people, based on figures given by intelligence officials. The Pakistani government routinely protests the strikes as violation of the country's sovereignty and has publicly asked the United States to give them the technology to launch their own attacks. But many analysts suspect the government— which has received billions of dollars a year from the United States in aid since 2001— secretly cooperates with them.
Also on Wednesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, which lies just next to the tribal areas. No one was killed in the attack except the bomber, police officer Qazi Jamil. Three bystanders suffered minor injuries. Jamil said the target of the attack was unclear. Earlier, an officer said the blast was close to a police building, though that turned out to be untrue. TV stations reported the target may have been a passing police patrol.

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