• A car bomb hit a U.S. convoy in the southern town of Khan Al Nus, between the Shiite cities of Najaf and Karbala, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding two others. • Rebels assassinated a professor of medicine at Baghdad University, identified as Hassan al-Rubaiei, in a roadside attack in Haifa street, a main road in Baghdad.
• Police in Najaf said that they captured a "terror cell" responsible for last week's deadly explosion in the Shiite Iraqi city of Najaf that killed at least 50 people.
• A roadside bomb exploded near the vehicle of the governor of eastern Diyala province, injuring four of his bodyguards, officials said. Governor Abdullah Rashid al-Jabouri was not hurt in the explosion which took place in the town of Khan Bani Saad, between Baqouba and Baghdad.