A Coalition UAV team killed four Mahdi Army fighters in Basrah while Iraqi police detained 12. The governor of Najaf and a representative of Sistani survived assassination attempts. Coalition forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader and captured five suspects in Mosul, and detained 13 al Qaeda operatives in the Tigris River Valley and northwest Iraq. Iraqi security forces captured a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq in Mosul.
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