Al Qaeda attacked the Awakening movement in Hawr Rajab and Diyala. The Iraqi Army and police killed 19 al Qaeda fighters in an operation in Diyala. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 10 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi police detained eight insurgents in Baghdad. The secretary of the Interior Ministry was killed in an ambush on his convoy in Baghdad. A suicide car bombing in Mosul killed two and wounded 12.
