A US airstrike killed nine Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in North Waziristan. Ten Pakistanis were killed in a Taliban bombing in Dir; eight police were wounded in a suicide attack in Islamabad. A Taliban letter was found at the Islamabad attack site. The military killed 21 Taliban fighters in Bajaur. n administrator and a teacher of a madrassa in Dera Ismail Khan were arrested for training female suicide bombers.
