Iraq

Insurgents killed a colonel at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, and two policemen in Mosul. Five Mahdi Army commanders escaped from a prison in Taji. Security forces detained 12 insurgents in Diyala.

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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