Iraq

Twenty Iraqis were killed in twin bombings at a market in Basrah. Insurgents killed seven policemen in Mosul, Baghdad, Diyala, Fallujah, and Hurriya, and three civilians in Baqubah and Mosul. The leader of the 1920s Revolution Brigade in Abu Ghraib was killed in an IED attack. Security forces killed an al Qaeda fighter and detained nine more in Sharqat and Mosul, and detained nine wanted men in Baqubah and a Hezbollah Brigades fighter 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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