Iraq

The US military said the Mahdi Army was behind yesterday’s car bombing in Karadah that killed over 50 Iraqis. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a Mahdi Army leader in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces arrested 12 policemen in Amarah. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 15 during raids in northern Iraq. Eighteen Iraqis were wounded in a car bomb attack in Mosul.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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