Pakistan

As noted here yesterday, the deputy Taliban commander captured by US forces in South Waziristan was named Hakimullah Mehsud, a clansman of Baitullah. Police in Tank arrested a suicide bomber and found two suicide vests. The Taliban fired two rockets at a fort in Miranshah, North Waziristan. A fuel tanker heading to Afghanistan was also destroyed in North Waziristan.

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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