The government caved to the Lal Masjid demands and released 4 members of the mosque in exchange for 2 of the 4 kidnapped police. The Taliban beheaded a ‘US spy’ in North Waziristan. A tribal jirga in Mohmand Agency met to discuss preventing the ‘Talibanisation™ of the agency. Bannu police found 3 suicide vests on a bus bound for Lahore. Bannu tribes vowed to take action against the Taliban if the government did not.
