Ayatollah Sistani urged Shia to protect Sunnis. Twenty-eight al Qaeda fighters were captured in Kirkuk. US forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader in Mosul and two al Qaeda leaders north of Baiji. The Mosul bridge damaged by an al Qaeda truck bombers was repaired in three days. The Islamic Army in Iraq in Mosul split from the central organization. Six Iraqis were killed and seven wounded after a suicide bomber attacked the Diyala police headquarters in Baqubah.
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