Iraq

Insurgents killed Abdul Salam Omran, the General Director of the National Security Directorate, and three civilians in bombings in Baghdad. Security forces detained a senior al Qaeda leader in Mosul and an IED facilitator in Kirkuk.

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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