Iraq

Insurgents killed 20 people in a car bomb attack in al Kut; al Qaeda in Iraq killed five policemen in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces detained an al Qaeda leader and a fighter in the village of Dugmat 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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