I'm on the U.S. "Kill List," Pakistani elder claims

Malik Jalal is convinced that America is
trying to kill him.
He's a Pakistani tribal elder from Waziristan, a
dangerous one-time Taliban stronghold on the border
with Afghanistan.
The region has borne the brunt of the United States'
drone campaign in Pakistan.
And six years ago, Jalal began to suspect that he
was on the Americans' alleged "kill list."
"Since 2010, I realized that there had been four
attacks that had occurred very close to me," he told
CNN.
One strike hit so close that it broke the windows of
his car.
"In another attack, my car was completely destroyed.
So I became aware that I was under the drone
attacks and America will kill me," he said. "I have
seen dead bodies, bodies of young children, bodies
that were in small pieces and since that time all this
had had a very bad impact on my life."
Fled in fear
The United States almost never officially confirms
that it has struck targets in Pakistan using drones,
and the names on its alleged kill list are secret.
Jalal says his fear was confirmed by security sources
with the CIA in Afghanistan, although he concedes
that he has not seen the list of targets himself.
He says that friends and family have been killed in
strikes that he believes were targeting him.
At one point, he became so fearful that he resorted
to sleeping outside, away from his children, in case
of another strike.
But it was the effect on his family that finally forced
him to flee Waziristan and move to the city of
Peshawar.
"Next to our house outside there are big trees and I
went under the trees after seeing five drones in the
sky and when I looked back I saw my younger son
Halal," Jalal recalled.
He told his son to go home, asking why he was there
with his father at night.
"He told me, 'Baba, I have seen with my own eyes
that they have targeted young children, hence the
reason I have come with you," the father said.
Intermediary with the Taliban
Jalal is a member of the North Waziristan peace
committee, a body that acts as interlocutors between
the Taliban and the Pakistani government.
He spoke to CNN from a London hotel room on a
short visit from Pakistan after being granted a
temporary visa by the British government. Invited to
the UK by a prominent human rights charity and a
top British lawyer, Jalal is lobbying the British and
American governments to clear his name