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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 24 May 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• MNC-I SOLDIER KILLED SOUTH OF BALAD
• CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 24 May 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Coalition Forces Kill Seven Terrorists, Detain Two AFPS 24 May 2006 -- Coalition forces killed seven terrorists and captured two others in Iraq yesterday, U.S. military officials said.

Deployments

US Policy

• Suicide Bombings Mask Continued Political Progress in Iraq, Bush Says AFPS 24 May 2006 -- Though suicide bombings continue to take innocent lives in Iraq, the country's political progress is a truer measure of success in U.S. efforts there, President Bush said here yesterday.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Status Report State Dept. 24 May 2006 [PDF]
• Iraq: New Government Already Facing Doubters RFE/RL 24 May 2006 -- Iraq's Council of Representatives approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet at a May 20 session, but not before one party stormed out of the session to protest what it said was the allocation of portfolios along sectarian lines.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Tariq Aziz Testifies as Defense Witness in Saddam Trial VOA 24 May 2006 -- Iraq's former deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, has testified as a defense witness in the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants in Baghdad.
• Analysis: Bush, Blair and Iraq cfr.org 24 May 2006 -- During his weekly "Question Time" in parliament on Wednesday, Tony Blair was asked his opinion of claims that Iraq is now embroiled in civil war