The military said 25 Taliban fighters were killed and 17 troops were wounded in clashes in Arakzai. Prime Minister Gilani said that for US-Pakistan relations to be restored, the US must end drone attacks and not carry out an “Abbottabad-like unilateral action in future.”
The Taliban killed five Polish soldiers in an IED attack in Ghazni. Police killed a suicide bomber in Khost. The US Army has charged eight soldiers with the death of another soldier.
Prime Minister Maliki urged the Kurdish Regional Government to hand over Vice President Hashimi, who is wanted for terrorism charges. Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in Abu Ghraib. Security forces detained 16 suspected terrorists in Basrah.
“We haven’t turned over [to Afghan forces] or vacated any ISAF bases in Laghman,” an ISAF official told The Long War Journal, refuting the Taliban’s assertion.
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Vice President Joe Biden said the Taliban is not the enemy of the US. ISAF said that night raids against the Taliban would continue. Ten Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Zabul.
Security forces detained eight members of the Punjabi Taliban during a security operation in Wana in South Waziristan. The head of the defense committee said the US would not end the pause in drone strikes unless a high-value target is spotted.
A suicide bomber attacked a police station in the village of Gubden in Dagestan’s Karabudakhkentsky district. No casualties or damage were reported. Dagestani leaders at a security summit described 2011 as “difficult in terms of terrorist and criminal situation” but said security had improved since 2010.
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Javed Ashraf Qazi also said the US has put the strikes on hold, as first reported here at The Long War Journal.