The day after the bombing, a small but curious report appeared in the Pakistan press:
PESHAWAR: Two men were killed after a landmine exploded on a dirt road in a village in the Bajaur Agency, a local resident said on Monday.
One of the men died at the scene in Jangzai village, said Sharif Khan, a resident of the village. The second man died of injuries while he was being taken to a hospital, Khan said. The explosion occurred on Sunday and both men were in their 30s, he said. There was no official confirmation of the blast and it was not known who may have planted the explosive in Jangzai. The town is about five kilometres from Damadola, a village where an alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) air strike on Friday killed at least 17 people. [emphasis added]
My guess is that if Zawahiri was coming to dinner at Damadola he could not have been far from that village in this remote, hard to move area—say about 5 kilometers away. Who was killed, why and how the IED appeared in this out-of-the-way spot is unknown, but I think a connection to the Damadola strike is far from unthinkable.
They also note that those "innocent civilians" that may have been killed were Egyptian and not Pakistani. As I said in an earlier post:
There's one assumption I would challenge here. The civilians present knew they were harbouring some of the most wanted terrorists on the planet, except for any children if they were there, and therefore cannot be innocent but instead, accomplices.
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