Pakistan

Three Pakistani soldiers were killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing in North Waziristan. NWFP Governor Aurakzai presses to keep the Waziristan accord alive. So does Taliban supporter and MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Baitullah Meshud, who openly operates from South Waziristan, warns the Taliban will give a “tougher fight this year than last year” in Afghanistan.

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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