Taliban Killing “U.S. Spies”

Current and former Pakistani intelligence agents say residents of the area who are helping the United States have access to what locals call “pathris,” literally “small things” — referred to by one agent as a “gadget” — that can be thrown into homes and used as targeting signals. Military officials declined to comment further on whether the devices map Global Positioning System coordinates, provide an RF signal or use some combination of these or other targeting technologies. “The attacks have become so precise. In a village, if they want to hit a house in the middle of the village and it’s surrounded by other houses, the missile would come and hit that one house only,” a resident of North Waziristan, who says he has witnessed numerous missile strikes, told ABC News.