Pakistan

Seven more Taliban fighters were killed in fighting in North and South Waziristan after ambushing military convoys and attacking checkpoints. A suicide bomber wounded five soldiers in Tank. Police released 21 students detained in the Lal Masjid operation. Jamaatud Dawa (formerly Lashkar-e-Taiba) leader Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said the only way to eliminate terrorism and have lasting peace was to set up a caliphate.

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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