Pakistan

Twenty-one Taliban fighters and civilians were killed in airstrikes in South Waziristan. A suicide bomber killed two policemen in Shangla. Interior Minister Rehman Malik denied he said that Mullah Fazlullah was wounded and surrounded. The military said the Swat offensive is in the final phase.

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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