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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 27 Sep 2007 [PDF]
• Non-combat-related death
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Gates and Gen. Pace from the Pentagon 27 Sep 2007 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace
• Forces Detain 21 Suspects in Central, Northern Iraq AFPS 27 Sep 2007 -- Coalition forces have killed and detained many suspected terrorists during operations over the past two days in central and northern Iraq.
• Coalition Forces Clear Former Insurgent Stronghold AFPS 27 Sep 2007 -- For the past four months, coalition forces have battled to take control of a former insurgent badland south of Baghdad that had no Iraq security forces, a senior commander in the area said today.
• Sept. 27 airpower summary: C-17 Globemaster III provides support AFPN 27 Sep 2007 -- Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations Sept. 27, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.

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US Policy

• Joint Statement by Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and General David H. Petraeus on U.S. Embassy and Mult MNF-I 27 Sep 2007 -- Joint Statement by Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and General David H. Petraeus on U.S. Embassy and Multi-National Force-Iraq Cooperation for Reviewing U.S. Government Protective Security Detail Operations in Iraq
• US Defense Chief Sees Long-Term US Military Presence in Iraq VOA 27 Sep 2007 -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he envisions a much smaller, but long-term, presence in Iraq of about five combat brigades - a quarter of the 20 U.S. combat brigades currently deployed in the country
• US Military Investigating Deaths of Civilians in Iraq VOA 27 Sep 2007 -- The U.S. military says it is investigating the deaths of nine women and children in an area south of the Iraqi capital, where U.S. forces had been conducting ground and air operations.

United Nations

• Iraq: UN Meetings Fail To Make Clear Breakthrough RFE/RL 27 Sep 2007 -- A series of meetings at UN headquarters in New York to bolster international support for Iraq began with considerable fanfare on September 22 with a high-level meeting of Iraq's neighbors, the permanent members of the Security Council, the Group of Eight industrialized countries, Egypt, Bahrain, the League of Arab States, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the European Union.

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• Arab League, Iraqi Vice President Reject US Senate Resolution on Iraq VOA 27 Sep 2007 -- The Arab League and Iraq's Shi'ite vice president have rejected a U.S. Senate resolution calling for the creation of a loose, de-centralized system of government in Iraq.

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