Pakistan

Maulana Fazlullah’s Taliban are now in full control of six of Swat’s eight regions. The Taliban bombed a seventh century statue of Buddha in Swat. A bomb destroyed an oil tanker in Landi Kotal carrying fuel for US forces in Afghanistan. The US military is concerned about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. Benazir Bhutto threatened to march from Lahore to Islamabad.

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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