Iraq

Seventy insurgents surrendered to US forces in Baiji. An Iraqi SWAT team detained two Special Groups operatives during raids in Hillah and Al Kut. Coalition forces detained five suspected al Qaeda fighters in northern Iraq. Two police were killed and nine wounded in an IED attack in Baghdad. Police stopped a suicide bomber in Mosul. Two Army officers were kidnapped near the Hamrin Mountains in Tamin province.

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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