A Sunni and Shia Awakening movement was formed near Taji. Eleven insurgents were captured south of Kirkuk. US forces “captured 17 suspected extremists” in the Shia neighborhood of New Baghdad. A cache of Iranian-manufactured rockets was turned in to Kazakh soldiers in Wasit province. A car bomb killed two Iraqis and wounded 14 in Hit. A female hairdresser was killed and five police wounded in attacks in Mosul. One Iraqi was killed and five wounded in an IED attack in Baghdad.