Fifty-one al Qaeda leaders have been killed or captured in December. A suicide bomber killed eight and wounded 16 in an attack on the Awakening in Baqubah. Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and detained 11 during operations in Miqdadiyah and Samarra, and detained a Special Groups operative in Adhamiyah. Iraqi security forces killed three insurgents and arrested 28 in Baghdad, 15 in Mosul, and eight in Kirkuk. Police arrested an assassination network leader in Diwaniyah.
