Iraq

Coalition forces captured a Special Groups financier in Mahmudiyah killed two Mahdi Army fighters in New Baghdad. Iraqi security forces killed nine insurgents as they attempted to ambush a checkpoint near Owja. Coalition forces detained 11 al Qaeda operatives in Mosul. Two police were killed and two were wounded in a car bomb attack in Mosul. Fourteen civilians were wounded in a car bombing in Mosul.

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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