The military claimed 52 Taliban fighters were killed during fighting in Swat; US officials called the military casualty numbers “wildly exaggerated.” President Zardari said the Army will defeat the Taliban with the people™s support; only 45 percent of Pakistanis support the military operation in the northwest. Two more Army divisions may be deployed to the northwest. A suicide bomber killed 10 Pakistanis in Darra Adam Khel. One of Baitullah Mehsud’s commanders was one of six people found dead in South Waziristan.
