Pakistan

Security forces arrested a doctor who sheltered al Qaeda leader Mohammad Yousaf; six suicide vests and explosive were found in the doctor’s home. An Islamist Russian national who lived in North Waziristan was captured in Afghanistan’s Khost province wearing a burka. Pakistan denied it worked out an agreement allowing US troops to operate inside its border.

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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