Iraq

A suicide bomber killed two Iraqis in a bombing at a restaurant in Samarra. Iraqi security forces detained 13 al Qaeda IED cell members in Baghdad and northern Iraq, 14 wanted men in Basrah, and two Naqshabandiyah cell leaders and three fighters in Ninewa and Salahadin. Police in Anbar arrested a senior al Qaeda leader as he crossed the Syrian border.

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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