Al Qaeda in Iraq killed nine Iraqi soldiers in attacks in and around Baghdad. A truck bomb was detonated at the Umm Qasr port; no one was killed and port operations were not affected. Iraq's foreign minister said his country would accept intelligence and counterterrorism assistance, to include the deployment of drones.
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