<br/> A US drone missile attack on a suspected militant hideout in a remote tribal area in northwest Pakistan early today killed at least four people.<br/> According to security officials the pre-dawn strike targeted the suspected militant compound in Dandey Darpa Khel in the North Waziristan region near the Afghan border. <br/> Afghan Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani's group is said to be active in the area. Haqqani served as a minister in the Taliban government which was ousted in late 2001 in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.<br/> Northwest Pakistan is seeing a surge in US strikes as the United States tries to stem the flow of militants waging a deadly insurgency against about 100,000 foreign troops stationed across the border.