A large force of Taliban set up checkpoints in Bajaur, and "destroyed tape recorders... snatched mobile phones and threatened clean-shaven males with 'strict action' if they did not grow beards." Seven Pakistani soldiers were injured in a grenade attack in Mir Ali, North Waziristan. The Lashkar-i-Islam destroyed a military checkpoint in Landi Kotal.
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