Iraq

Coalition forces killed Abu Duha, an al Qaeda security emir in Mosul. Iraqi troops captured Hamid Kassousa, an al Qaeda emir in Samarra. A suicide bomber killed nine in an attack on a Shia shrine in the Kazimiyah district of Baghdad.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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