Pakistani forces fired on two US helicopters as they attempted to enter North Waziristan. The Fedayeen-e-Islam claimed credit for the Marriott Hotel bombing. Nine soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in Swat. Afghanistan™s consul general in Peshawar was kidnapped. The Jamaat-ud-Dawa is using mosques in Peshawar to issue the call for jihad. Taliban and police forces clashed in Charsadda.