One US soldier was killed and 18 wounded in a suicide car bombing in Kirkuk. Al Qaeda fighters killed five civilians in an attack at a market in the Khanaqin district in Diyala. Three Iraqis were killed and seven wounded in a mortar attack outside the Defense Ministry. Coalition forces captured an al Qaeda leader, a bombing cell leader, and four fighters in Mosul, and captured a Basrah-based Special Groups operative and his associate in the Rusafa district of Baghdad.
