Pakistan

Sixty Taliban fighters and four Frontier troops were killed in a Taliban assault on a base in Arakzai. The Taliban threatened to kill “American spies” in North Waziristan. A Pakistani Army major has been detained in connection with the failed Times Square bombing.

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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