Pakistan

Mullah Fazlullah threatened to launch suicide attacks if the government launches an operation in Swat. A boy was killed in a bombing at a store in Swat. A top Lashkar-i-Jhangvi leader was arrested in Quetta. Hafiz Gul Bahadur was named leader of the Taliban in North Waziristan. Eight tribes in Hangu agreed not to shelter “militants.”

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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