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The Hezbollah Brigades claimed Monday’s rocket attack in Baghdad that killed five US soldiers. The Iranian-backed group claimed it has rockets that are “ready to be used at any time to target enemy bases, especially its embassy.”

Insurgents killed three Iraqis, including a judge, in Baghdad. Security forces detained 42 wanted men in Wassit and a terrorist who assassinated a police chief in Ninewa.

Insurgents killed a police officer in Diyala and a civilian in Fallujah. Security forces detained 22 insurgents in Basrah and two more in Kirkuk.

Insurgents killed three people in a bombing at a policeman’s home in Ramadi and two policemen in Mosul. Security forces arrested four al Qaeda in Iraq operatives in Fallujah and Ramadi who are involved in assassinating clerics.

A suicide bomber killed 12 Iraqis, including four Army officers and five soldiers, in an attack on the Presidential Palaces compound in Tikrit. Five US soldiers were killed in an attack in Baghdad.

The aide to the parliament speaker was killed in Baghdad. An oil reserve field at the Zubeir Oil Field was set aflame in a rocket attack. The Iraq Drilling Co. has begun repairing wells and drilling for oil in the Hamrin mountains north of Baghdad.

A suicide bomber killed four people, including two policemen, in an attack on a university hospital in Tikrit. A member of parliament was visiting the hospital. Insurgents killed a civil defense colonel in Baghdad.

Seventeen people were killed and more than 50 were wounded outside a mosque in Tikrit that is visited by government officials. Two provincial councilors and a senior police officer were wounded in the attack.

Six people were killed in a series of bombings in Ramadi; officials blamed al Qaeda in Iraq. A tribal sheikh was murdered in Fallujah.

Insurgents killed three Awakening fighters in Tikrit and two Iraqis in Kirkuk. Security forces arrested 24 insurgents in Mosul.

Police captured the man who is thought to have killed the head of Iraq’s Justice and Accountability Commission. Vice President Adul Abdul Mahdi resigned in protest over the expansion of government.

Insurgents killed two soldiers in Baghdad and two civilians in Mosul. Khalid al Obaidi, an Iraqiya politician who is a candidate to lead the defense ministry, was wounded in an IED attack in Mosul.

Prime Minister Maliki indicated he would consider allowing US trainers and advisers to stay past the December 2011 withdrawal deadline. Insurgents killed an Iraqi soldier in Baghdad and a civilian in Diyala.

Security forces arrested 25 al Qaeda fighters who belonged to a cell that killed 70 members of a wedding party in 2006. The leader of the cell posed as a human rights activist. Security forces found the bodies of two men who were executed in Mosul.

Ali al Lami, the chief of the Justice and Accountability Commission which rooted out Ba’athists, was assassinated in Baghdad. Lami was arrested by the US in 2008 for ties to Shia militias backed by Iran.

The spokesman for US Forces-Iraq said that attacks against US troops are on the rise as the December 2011 drawdown deadline nears. Thousands of supporters of Muqtada al Sadr protested against a continued US military presence in Iraq.

Insurgents killed two policemen in Fallujah, a police brigadier in Kirkuk, a policeman in Ramadi, and a civilian in Khanaqin. The minister for national reconciliation said the Asaib al Haq may be willing to lay down their weapons.

Insurgents killed four Iraqis in a car bombing and a Ministry of Defense colonel in Baghdad. Security forces captured four al Qaeda fighters in Anbar.

Insurgents killed two civilians in Kirkuk, a civilian in Baghdad, and a policeman in Al Qaim in Anbar. Two US soldiers were killed during “combat operations” in central Iraq on May 22.