US and Iraq forces detained three senior al Qaeda leaders in Baghdad and a female suicide bomber in Baqubah. Iraqi forces detained 27 insurgents in Baghdad. A senior cleric associated with Ayatollah Sistani was assassinated in Basrah. Sistani dispelled reports he is in a coma. A suicide bomber killed 25 Iraqis during a celebration in Abu Ghraib. Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in a bombing in Baqubah.
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