Pakistan

A Taliban leader said Hakeemullah Mehsud will release a tape in the next couple of days to prove he is alive. Security forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and detained 12 Taliban fighters in Swat and South Waziristan. The Taliban torched a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber.

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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