Pakistan

The Taliban released a senior Swat official and his six bodyguards after kidnapping them earlier today; they were exchanged for two Taliban prisoners. The Taliban murdered a policeman in Kohat and destroyed six shops in Khyber. Four Taliban fighters were killed in Bajaur.

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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