Pakistan

Five senior Swat Taliban leaders including Muslim Khan were detained during negotiations with the military. The military’s top spokesman said the time for negotiations with the Taliban is over. Five hundred tribal policemen in Khyber deserted due to Taliban threats. A Haqqani Network commander was killed in the Sept. 8 airstrike in North 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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