US and Iraqi forces captured a senior Special Groups leader and 10 operatives in Hillah. Unnamed sources close to Sadr claim he will extend the cease-fire. Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operative and detained 21 during raids in Mosul and near the Hamrin Mountains. Iraqi troops found a large bomb factory in Baghdad. The director of a Baghdad mental hospital was arrested for recruiting patients to act as bombers. The Iraqi Army sent a battalion of troops to Samarra to block the movement of al Qaeda forces to Mosul. Two CBS cameramen are missing in Basra.
