Iraq

A bombing at a pet market in Baghdad killed 13 and wounded over 50. Seven Iraqis were killed and 21 wounded in bombings in Mosul. Al Qaeda overran a village north of Khalis. Insurgents bombed a bridge south of Mosul. Coalition forces captured seven members of an al Qaeda propaganda cell in in Samarra. An Iraqi Emergency Response Unit detained five extremists during an north of Diwaniyah. US and Iraqi forces captured 33 insurgents near Kirkuk.

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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