- TTP claims UN attack | (BBC) Spokesman Azam Tariq claims TTP responsibility for Monday’s attack on UN World Food Programme offices in Islamabad, describing UNWFP as “‘infidels’ promoting an American agenda” and “not in the interest of Muslims”. The UN has temporarily closed its offices in the city. Pakistani authorities are bracing for more attacks in coming days as the Army prepares to take the plunge into Waziristan.
- Pakistan jets bomb S. Waziristan | (Al Jazeera) Pakistani jets drop bombs on Makin and Nawaz Kot in S. Waziristan tribal region, killing six suspected Taliban fighters and wounding three others.
- US push into Pakistan meets resistance | (NYT) Pakistani sovereignty sore over American aid, embassies & deployment of private security groups.
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October 6, 2009 by Tom Amaral