By Rasool Dawar, Canadian Press, March 17, 2011
MIR ALI, Pakistan — U.S. drone aircraft fired four missiles at a building in a militant sanctuary in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing 38 people in an unusually deadly strike, Pakistani officials said.  A senior Pakistani intelligence official said the dead were militants meeting to discuss plans to send fighters to Afghanistan; the local governor said they were innocent tribal elders and police....

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US drone targets Taliban meeting in Pakistan, 41 dead
Deutsche Presse Agentur, March 17, 2011
ISLAMABAD - US unmanned drones on Thursday fired four missiles into a suspected Taliban compound in Pakistan's north-western tribal area along Afghan border, killing at least 41 and injuring several people, intelligence officials said. The missile attack severely damaged the building allegedly used by local Taliban in Data Khel, a main town in the troubled tribal district of North Waziristan.  'The death toll has now risen to at least 41 and around one dozen people are injured in the attack,' an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity, adding that the casualties were all Islamist insurgents. 'The drone attack took place when local Taliban were holding a meeting at the compound,' he said. 'The exact identity of those killed is not determined yet since Taliban have cordoned off the area. We have to see if there was some important commander among the dead,' the official said.....

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US drone strike in NW, 38 killed
Reuters, March 17, 2011
MIRAMSHAH: A US drone missile strike on Thursday killed at least 38 suspected militants in a Pakistani tribal region, intelligence officials said. There were conflicting accounts about the target of the attack and those killed in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan. The death toll was one of the highest in a drone missile strike.  There were conflicting accounts about the target of the attack in the Dattakhel region of North Waziristan.....