Pakistan

Baitullah Mehsud proved he is alive by visiting several villages in South Waziristan. The Mahmood tribe decided to form an anti-Taliban lashkar while the Salazaris killed three Taliban in Bajaur. Security forces arrested a Lashkar-e-Islam commander and five fighters in Khyber.

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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