Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed three civilians outside the Peshawar home of the spokesman for Ansar-ul-Islam; the spokesman was killed in a suicide attack on Aug. 22. Security forces detained 51 Taliban fighters in Swat and seven Lashkar-e-Jhangvi members in Karachi. A Taliban tribal leader and three relatives were killed during a shooting in Wana in South Waziristan.

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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