Iraq

Security forces detained 16 insurgents in Basrah, 15 wanted men in Karbala, and seven al Qaeda fighters in Abu Ghraib, and killed one terrorist and wounded another in Kirkuk. A US soldier was killed in an IED attack in Baghdad.

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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