Fighting between the Iraqi Army and the “Soldiers of Heaven,” a cultish Shia terror group, resulted in about 50 killed and 100 wounded in the southern cities of Basrah and Nasiriyah. US Air Force B-1 bombers destroyed an al Qaeda training camp near Arab Jabour. Coalition forces killed 13 al Qaeda operatives and detained three during operations in central and northern Iraq, killed four al Qaeda fighters in Qulay™ah, west of Miqdadiyah, and captured an IED and suicide bomb cell leader in Baqubah. Iraqi Police killed one of the most wanted men in Salahadin province. Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained an IED cell leader and six suspects in Mosul.
