US soldiers destroyed a Special Groups command and control center and killed 14 Mahdi Army fighters in Sadr City. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a Special Groups leader and detained a member of his company in Baghdad. US troops found an EFP cache in Warij in southern Baghdad province. Coalition forces detained 14 al Qaeda operatives in central and northern Iraq. US and Iraqi forces captured 11 insurgents in Ninewa province. More than 300 al Qaeda fighters paraded through a village in northern Diyala province. Two Georgian soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Diyala province.
