Iraq

The Baath party has threatened to strike US interests outside Iraq if Saddam Hussein is executed. Saddam calls his sentence a “sacrifice.” The Iraqi Army and US conducted a raid on a Mahdi Army IED facilitator near Najaf. During the raid, a US soldier killed Saheb al-Amir, a senior Sadr aide who was the IED facilitator.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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