Pakistan

Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Mohmand. Police arrested two French men in Lahore who accompanied Jemaah Islamiyah leader Umar Patek. A CIA official said the Predator strikes will not cease.

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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