The US Treasury Department designated six al Qaeda members who work for a terror network based in Iran. One of the six leaders designated today was identified as al Qaeda’s “operations chief” earlier this month; he was also reported to be involved in plotting an attack set to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
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The Taliban killed a Pakistani soldier in an IED attack South Waziristan and bombed two government schools in Khyber. The Army completed an operation in South Waziristan.
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Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Kurram and arrested a Taliban intelligence official and his aide in Islamabad. A suicide bomber killed one soldier in an attack on a security checkpoint in South Waziristan.
The Taliban intelligence official is identified by the initials QZR, but it is unclear if he is Qari Zia Rahman.
The Taliban facilitator has “direct ties to senior al Qaeda members and arranges escape routes for them to safe havens in Pakistan.” A senior Afghan official said that five “foreign fighters” were killed during the operation in Ghazni.
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