Americans killed in Pakistan working with CIA

The Americans killed in last week’s bomb attack in Pakistan were US agents that had been working closely with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), an official says.

Dozens of teenage girls were caught up in the blast, outside their secondary school last week. The incident left eight people, including three American soldiers dead.

A British newspaper, quoting an unnamed official, claims that the three US soldiers killed in the attack near a girls’ school in Dir, northwest Pakistan, were “trainers” cooperating with the CIA.

According to The Times Online the Americans, pretending to train paramilitary officers, were involved in gathering intelligence information from the tribal areas of Pakistan for the CIA-operated drone attacks in the region.

The source claims that the CIA does not trust Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agents (ISI), and is using American “trainers” to gather information because it believes ISI agents close to the pro-Taliban militants.

Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have recently stepped up their attacks on schools. Over the pat two months 10 attack on schools have been reported.