Iraq

Insurgents killed two policemen in Mosul. Security forces detained four al Qaeda fighters in Baghdad and Kirkuk, and an insurgent in Kirkuk, and found eight suicide vests in Amarah. President Obama said all US troops would leave Iraq by the end of 2011.

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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