The Defense Department announced the transfer of two Gitmo detainees today. One of the detainees is an IED expert who was a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba and trained al Qaeda operatives. The other allegedly fought at Tora Bora alongside his son, who was also detained at Gitmo.
US Secretary of State Clinton said Pakistan would receive $7.5 billion in civilian aid. The military killed 41 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Kurram and Arakzai. Two Christians accused of blasphemy were gunned down in front of a court in Faisalabad.
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A suicide bomber killed three civilians outside a mosque in Sargodha. Security forces killed 25 Taliban fighters in Kurram and detained 36 more.
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The Taliban killed 18 civilians in an ambush on a convoy in Kurram. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. Six people were wounded in two bombings in Lahore and five policemen were wounded in an IED attack in Charsadda.
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Ten people were killed in a bombing at a market in the Tirah valley in Khyber. The Taliban attached explosive vests to two “US spies” and blew them up in North Waziristan, and destroyed five NATO fuel tankers in Khuzdar and Mach near Quetta.
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The US killed 10 terrorists in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Pakistani troops killed 15 Taliban fighters in Arakzai. A Taliban suicide bomber killed five people in Swat. The Taliban beheaded two tribal leaders in Kohat and bombed a mosque and a shrine in Khyber.
The strike is the first in 16 days.
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The Pakistani Taliban released a martyrdom videotape of failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. The military killed 24 Taliban fighters in Arakzai and wounded 36 more, including a Taliban commander. Pakistan banned the movie ”Tere Bin Laden” fearing it would provoke attacks.
Shahzad said jihad is a “pillar” of Islam and that the “Muslims’ war has just started.”
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