In Pakistan, the death toll from Monday’s US drone attack has reached twenty-three, including eight children. US drones fired five missiles at a large compound belonging to one of Pakistan’s most prominent Taliban leaders. The attack was the third American missile strike on North and South Waziristan since last week. The target of the attack, Jalaluddin Haqqani, was not at the compound. Haqqani was a CIA asset during the 1980s. The US gave him tens of thousands of dollars for his work in fighting the Soviet army in Afghanistan.