Special operations forces killed one Special Groups operative and captured two. Twenty-one al Qaeda operatives were captured in raids throughout the country. US forces captured 12 insurgents in raids near Busayefi and Hawr Rajab. Insurgents murdered a Sunni Iraqi police lieutenant and his wife in Baghdad™s Adhamiyah neighborhood.
Two more “US Spies” were beheaded in North Waziristan. Maulana Fazlullah, the leader of the TNSM in Swat, released two captive policemen. Seven shops were destroyed in a bombing in Swat.
US intelligence believes al Qaeda escaped the fighting in Tora Bora. See the report from The Long War Journal on the fighting in Tora Bora and reports that Dr. Amin al Haq, who serves as Osama bin Laden’s security coordinator, was wounded in the fighting, which indicated Osama bin Laden may have been at the […]
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Benazir Bhutto said she would grant the IAEA access to infamous nuclear scientist AQ Khan. The NWFP governemnt called on the army to deploy to Swat. Four soldiers and three children were wounded in Taliban attacks on checkpoints in North Waziristan.
An al Qaeda suicide bomber killed 24 members of a joint Shia-Sunni tribal meeting in Shifta in Diyala province; 37 were wounded, including the governor. Task Force 88 captured a member of the Special Groups in Baghdad. Five al Qaeda operatives were killed and 34 suspects detained.
Afghan Army soldiers, backed by advisors, killed 104 Taliban during a battle near Musa Qala Wadi in Helmand province, and NATO forces killed another 65 in a battle in Uruzgan. British Special Boat Service commandos helped free two captured Italian soldiers. A suicide bomber killed five police in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province.
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Baitullah Mehsud “agreed to take confidence-building measures before the release of soldiers held hostage,” and will let Pakistani troops to pass through Mehsud territory without being attacked. The North Waziristan Taliban beheaded a contractor for supplying food to the Pakistani army. The Taliban threatened to blow up tailor shops in Kohat if the owners do […]