Drone attack kills 20

At least one suspected United States drone fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area orchestrated a deadly suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

Four missiles slammed into the house in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan, the same region where a drone strike last week targeted a meeting of militant commanders in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to kill Pakistani Taleban chief Hakimullah Mehsud.

The house targeted yesterday was being used by Usman Jan, the head of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, intelligence officials said.

Five Uzbeks were killed in the strike, but it was unclear if Jan was among them.