US forces stormed a building in the northern Iraq city of Mosul today and arrested a suspected "high-level al-Qaeda leader" in an operation that led to the death of a 12-year-old boy......The detained militant was not identified, except as allegedly "one of the main foreign terrorist facilitators in Iraq".
In a separate operation in the Julaiba district of Baghdad, a US air strike "killed one terrorist and wounded another after coalition forces observed the individuals loading a vehicle with illegal weapons and explosives". The suspects had been under surveillance and were suspected of planting roadside booby traps. When the were spotted loading their car, US troops called in air support and the vehicle was destroyed.