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Insurgents killed three Awakening fighters during an attack at a checkpoint in Dujail. The governor of Dhi Qar province said that 18 men detained for bombings in Nassiriyah are connected to Vice President Tareq al Hashemi.

Insurgents killed 58 Iraqis, including soldiers and policemen, in attacks in Amara, Basrah, Nassiriyah, Dujail, Baquba, Samarra, Kirkuk, and Tuz Khurmato. One attack, a complex suicide assault against a military base in Dujail, killed 11 Iraqi soldiers. A court sentenced fugitive Vice President Hashemi to death.

Insurgents killed eight people in bombings at mosques in Kirkuk and a soldier in a shooting in Baqubah. Security forces detained nine “terrorists” in Kirkuk.

Insurgents killed six Iraqi soldiers in an IED attack in Tuz Khurmatu and a police avdiser in Kirkuk. Security forces detained 18 wanted “terrorists” in Babil.

Insurgents killed two Iraqi soldiers in an IED attack in Tuz Khurmatu. Two more Iraqi policemen were killed in a bombing in Kirkuk.

Insurgents killed two Shia clerics and two other Iraqis in attacks in Baghdad. The government claimed that casualties in insurgent attacks have halved from July to August.

Insurgents killed an Army general, a policeman, and a Sunni cleric in Baghdad, and four policemen in Kirkuk. The government executed five “terrorists.”

Insurgents killed a policeman and a soldier in Baghdad, and a civilian in Fallujah. Security forces detained two “terrorists” in Tikrit.

Gunmen assassinated an Army brigadier general with a silenced pistol in Taji; two civilians were killed in bombings in Haditha and Mosul. Seven al Qaeda operatives were detained in Wasit; the bodies of four al Qaeda leaders were discovered in Mosul.

Insurgents killed three policemen, two soldiers, and five civilians in attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk. The Army took control of the border with Syria. Sheikh Hameed al Hayis, the head of the Anbar Salvation Council, said he would turn himself over to the government.

Insurgents killed a policeman, a politician, and a civilian in shootings in Mosul, and wounded a colonel and and three soldiers as they were patrolling in Dhuluiyah.

Three people were killed in a pair of bombings at a Shia mosque in Sadr City in Baghdad. The government closed the border crossing point in Al Qaim.

Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed credit for an attack in Haditha that killed 27 policemen and scores of other attacks in Anbar province this summer. A Syrian fighter plane penetrated Iraqi airspace near Al Qaim.