(Previous Incident Code: Ob42 )

An attack near the home of TTP deputy leader Maulvi Faqir Mohammed in Bajaur Agency (the first since May 2008) reportedly missed him by minutes. Senior Taliban leaders from ‘Bajaur, Swat, Dir Upper and Dir Lower districts’ had allegedly gathered for a shura or council meeting in underground bunkers. The strike killed at least 20 people (including Faqir’s nephew Zahid; his son-in-law, and ‘three foreign militants’, possibly Uzbeks or Arabs) and injured eight.