Pakistan

Nine leaders in Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir’s group were killed in South Waziristan; Nazir is blaming Baitullah Mehsud. Five Christians abducted while passing through South Waziristan have been freed. Eight soldiers and two civilians were wounded in a suicide bombing in Swat. The Taliban wounded four Scouts during at attack in Mohmand.

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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