Pakistan

Mullah Mohammad Nazir said he hasn’t seen bin Laden or Zawahiri, but “We hope to see them and if they show up in our area we will protect them with our bodies and souls.” The US will create ‘Reconstruction Opportunity Zones™ in FATA despite the al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuaries. Tribal leaders back fencing the border, but not mining it.

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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