Topic: Suicide Attack Kills 5 Troops

Washington Times
February 2, 2008
Pg. 6
Pakistan

ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber attacked a military checkpoint yesterday in North Waziristan, killing five government soldiers about two miles from the scene of a U.S. missile attack that had killed a top al Qaeda commander, officials said.
It was not clear whether the attack was in retaliation for the missile strike against Abu Laith al-Libi, whose death was reported Thursday on Islamic extremist Web sites and confirmed by an American official.