Pakistan

Eight al Qaeda were arrested for plotting the Islamabad and Rawalpindi attacks. Syed Saleem Shahzad reports this was part of a coup attempt. Police arrested a man plotting bomb attacks in Lahore on Eid. The suspect is from Wana, South Waziristan. Two bombs were detonated in Quetta and one in Peshawar.

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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