Iraq

Al Qaeda in Iraq killed an Awakening leader and three of his sons in Samarra. Insurgents killed seven Iraqis in a bombing in Diwaniyah and killed another in a blast in Hamdaniyah. Police arrested six al Qaeda fighters in Tharthar.

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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