Pakistan

Four security personnel, including a senior officer, were kidnapped in South Waziristan. Six soldiers were beginning to desert due to Taliban attacks. President Musharraf said the army will withdraw from the tribal agencies by January 2008.

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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