Pakistan

An estimated 600 students of the Lal Masjid were trained as suicide bombers are believed to be hiding in Islamabad. Soldiers and police have been warned not to wear their uniforms in public. A kidnapped policeman in Kohat and three policeman in Dir were murdered. The army shelled Taliban positions near Miramshah after a policeman was wounded in a rocket attack. Peace jirgas are forming in Mohmand agency.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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