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Insurgents killed 17 Iraqis in attacks in Baghdad, Kirkuk, and Sadiyah. Security forces captured an al Qaeda leader who escaped from a jail in Mosul.

A former al Qaeda leader who renounced the group and became an Awakening commander was assassinated in Baghdad. Insurgents decapitated a policeman and killed a civilian in a barber shop in Mosul.

Insurgents killed eight Iraqis in a bombing in Sadr City, a policeman in Ramadi, and a civilian in Shirqat. Muqtada al Sadr threatened to attack US Embassy employees traveling in Baghdad.

Vice President Hashemi said he would face a court in Baghdad if Prime Minister Maliki resigns. Insurgents killed a soldier in Mosul and an Awakening commander and three others in Kirkuk.

Insurgents killed five policemen during an attack on a checkpoint in Rutbah near the Jordanian border. Abu Mustafa al Khazali, the head of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah Brigades, said his militia would not surrender its weapons despite the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.

Insurgents killed 11 Iraqis and wounded dozens more in car bombings in Mosul and Hillah. Security forces detained 14 al Qaeda members, including a leader, in Kirkuk.

Iraqi insurgents dressed as policemen attacked a government compound and a police station in Ramadi with four suicide bombers; seven police officers and at least six attackers died in the clashes. A car bomb targeting a police station in Baiji killed at least one person and injured 12 others.

A suicide bomber killed more than 50 Shia pilgrims and injured 91 others as they gathered for Arbain in Basra. An explosion targeting Shia pilgrims east of Mosul injured three civilians and two policemen. Prime Minister Maliki strongly criticized Turkish “interventions” in Iraqi affairs and warned that “Turkey itself would suffer if its actions sparked […]

Insurgents killed four policemen in Al Qaim; one insurgent was also killed. Police killed two “masked men” in Kirkuk. The Kurdish Regional Government has balked at turning over Vice President Hashemi to the central government.

Insurgents killed seven people in two bombings in Baghdad and a soldier in Fallujah. Security forces detained four al Qaeda fighters in Karbala.

Security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq’s “financial officer” and several aides during a raid in the Hamrin Mountains near Kirkuk. Vice President Hashemi, who is wanted by the government, set up an office in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish areas.

Attacks against Shia pilgrims before the Arbaeen holiday have killed over 60 civilians, the deadliest being a suicide attack against a security checkpoint that killed 44 and wounded dozens more in Nasiriya. Qais Qazali, the notorious leader of the Shia death squad Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, is prepared to disarm and join the political process.