Pakistan

Al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf is reported to have been killed in a US strike in North Waziristan. A bombing at a mosque in Hangu killed five civilians and wounded seven. Three people were wounded in an IED attack on a NATO convoy traveling through Khyber. The Army took control of Kabal in Swat.

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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