Pakistan

Security forces killed 16 Taliban fighters in Arakzai; a Taliban commander and three fighters were killed in a premature detonation in the tribal agency. US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said Pakistan does not have the capacity to conduct an operation against the Taliban 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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