Pakistan

A roadside bomb killed the Bajaur agency surgeon and wounded 3 doctors. A bomb was detonated in a market in Tank. Three al Qaeda linked terrorists were arrested in Karachi. Islamabad is on alert after intel that a terror cell has been activated. NWFP Governor Aurakzai called the Taliban “a nationalist movement, a resistance movement, sort of a liberation war against coalition forces,” and defended the Waziristan Accord. Tinted windows have been banned in Waziristan to increase security. The US will fund 100 border posts.

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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