
Iraqi security forces detained 142 "gunmen" since Operation Lion's Roar began in Mosul on May 10. US and Iraq forces captured seven al Qaeda operatives in Mosul. Iraqi security forces killed one "gunman" and captured 24 in Baghdad. Sheikh Majid Abdul-Razzaq Soliman, the chairman of the Iraq Chieftains & Notables Council of the Dulaimi tribe, said the US and Europe must help stop the "growing Iranian influence" in Iraq.
Details emerged about the two top AQ operatives who were killed yesterday. Abu Suleiman al Otaibi is a Saudi national who served as a senior leader in al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq prior to meeting his end in Afghanistan. He was the former leader of the legal system of al Qaeda in Iraq's political front, the Islamic State of Iraq.The other individual was Abu Dejana al Qahtani, also a Saudi national. He is the brother of Abu Nasir al Qahtani, one of four al Qaeda operatives who escaped from Bagram prison in 2005.
An AQ-affiliated group, Harkat ul Jihad al Islami Bangladesh, or HuJI-B, killed 60 and wounded 200 in multiple bombings in India.