In Pakistan, NBC News is reporting the CIA has assassinated a high ranking commander of Al Qaeda. The man–Hamza Rabia–reportedly died after a CIA predator drone fired a round of missiles into a house where he was staying in northern Pakistan. Four other people are believed to have died in the attack. Neither the U.S. nor Pakistan has not confirmed how Rabia was killed in part because Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf would likely face a backlash at home if it was widely known he was allowing the CIA to operate Predator drones inside Pakistan. Rabia is an Egyptian who has been described as the number three man in Al Qaeda–the same position once held by Khalid Sheik Mohammed.