Pakistan

US intelligence said al Qaeda’s operational commander for Pakistan and his lieutenant were killed in the Jan. 1 airstrike in South Waziristan. Both men were wanted for the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa. The Taliban bombed a CD shop in Peshawar.

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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