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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.

Fifteen Iraqis were killed in a series of attacks in and around Baghdad. Eleven were Iraqi soldiers who were killed in a suicide attack in Taji.

Insurgents killed seven people in attacks in Kirkuk and Mosul. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Basra, Anbar, and Hillah.

Insurgents killed a colonel at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, and two policemen in Mosul. Five Mahdi Army commanders escaped from a prison in Taji. Security forces detained 12 insurgents in Diyala.

Insurgents killed 29 people and wounded 80 more in three bombings at a police station in Kirkuk. A civilian was killed in an IED attack in Baghdad. The Iraqi military identified the four senior al Qaeda leaders captured yesterday in Kirkuk.

Security forces detained al Qaeda’s military leader, top judge, and two other commanders in Salahadin, and captured al Qaeda’s governor in Kirkuk. Britain will withdraw its last 170 military personnel from Iraq this weekend.

Insurgents killed an Interior Ministry major and a civilian in Baghdad, and two Iraqis in Babil. Terrorists executed and beheaded a Christian in Kirkuk after demanding $100,000 in ransom.

Insurgents killed six Iraqis in separate attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Iraqi security officials claimed that Shia terror groups are behind a wave of assassinations of government officials over the past several months.

Security forces killed an insurgent in Mosul and detained 17 more in Hawijah. Insurgents killed five people in Baghdad and a tax collector in Tikrit.

Two policemen were killed in a bombing in Tikrit in Salahadin. Iraq’s political parties will debate extending the US troop presence beyond December 2011.

Insurgents killed a civilian in Baghdad and targeted for assassination a director general of the Iraqi Police. Police arrested 10 wanted men in Maysan province.

Eighteen people, including al Qaeda’s governor for Baghdad and seven security officers, were killed during a failed jailbreak. Insurgents killed three civilians and a policeman in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Security forces detained 12 wanted men in Ninewa and Baqubah.

Security forces in Mosul killed the governor of Ninewa for al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq. Insurgents killed six people and looted foreign exchanges in Baqubah. The foreign minister said al Qaeda in Iraq is likely to take revenge for Osama bin Laden’s death.

An Awakening leader’s bodyguard was killed at a checkpoint in Diyala. Police found a beheaded body riddled with bullets north of Fallujah.

A suicide bomber killed 20 Iraqis in an attack on a police headquarters in Hillah. Insurgents killed a general, a policeman, and two Kurdish troops in attacks in Baghdad, Mosul, and Kirikuk. Police killed the Islamic State of Iraq’s governor of Ninewa.