US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has defended tactics used in the fight against al-Qaeda militants amid growing anger towards the US in Pakistan.
Protesters in Pakistan have blamed the US for the deaths of 18 civilians in a missile attack on a village on Friday.
Ms Rice did not say if the US carried out the attack, the intended target of which, according to media reports, was al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Islamabad has protested to the US, saying the strike missed its target.
Jets, or in some accounts an unmanned aircraft, reportedly fired missiles at a housing compound in the village of Damadola, near the Afghan border, on Friday....
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