Iraq

The Mahdi Army’s Promised Day Brigade claimed it carried out multiple IED and rocket attacks on US forces. Insurgents killed an Awakening leader in Abu Ghraib. The president approved the execution of a Tunisian involved in the destruction of the Al Askaria mosque in 2006.

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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