The bodies were found on the side of the road in Peer Kaley village in North
Wazoo, a stronghold of al-Qaeda-linked groups, 10 kilometers (six miles) east of the district's main town of Miranshah.... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
"Unidentified people threw away these nine bodies. No one knows who killed them," a security official based in Miranshah told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Local residents confirmed that the bodies had been discovered and a second security official in Miranshah said the identity of the dead was yet not known.
But Ehsanullah Ehsan, a front man for the umbrella Taliban faction in Pakistain, told AFP that all nine were Taliban fighters and accused government security forces of killing them.
"We are proud of their martyrdom, soon we will take Dire Revenge™ for this killing," he told AFP from