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The Prime Minister established an Awakening council in Samarra, while an 800-man police force was formed in Wasit province. Iraqi Security Forces killed two insurgents and detained 30 in Baghdad. Coalition forces captured a Special Groups training supervisor and 10 associates during operations in the Baghdad area. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 19 raids in central and northern Iraq. Ten police were 10 were wounded in a blast outside former Prime Minister Allawi's offices in Baghdad, and wounded in an attack in Balad.