Pakistan

The assassination of the Army’s surgeon general has been linked back to the tribal areas. Security forces arrested a likely plotter in the October assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto.Three close aides Maulana Fazlullah were arrested in Swat. Pakistan People™s Party-backed candidate for the Upper Kurram seat in the assembly was wounded in an IED attack with three others.

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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