Iraq

General Odierno said al Qaeda still has the capacity to return to areas it once controlled. US forces detained four Hezbollah Brigades operatives in Baghdad. Iraqi forces detained 16 insurgents in Baghdad and al Qaeda’s emir in Miqdadiyah.

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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