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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 09 Jan 2008 [PDF]
• MND-North Soldiers attacked by small arms fire (Salah ad Din)
• MND-N Soldiers attacked by HBIED (Diyala)
• Iran Claims US Faked Video Showing Gulf Standoff VOA 09 Jan 2008 -- Iran and the United States are now trading allegations about a recording of the a confrontation between U.S. Navy warships and Iranian Revolutionary Guard speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week
• PRESS CONFERENCE: Maj. Gen. Bergner, Maj. Gen. Hertling, Jan. 9, 2008 MNF-I 09 Jan 2008 -- Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, Multi-National Force - Iraq spokesman, and Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, Commander of Multi-National Division - North, provide an operational update
• Jan. 8 airpower summary: C-17s fly aeromedical evacuations AFPN 09 Jan 2008
• Air strike destroys safe house, reveals large cache AFPN 09 Jan 2008 -- Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots dropped two 500-pound bombs Jan. 6, destroying an al-Qaida safe house near Busayefi, Iraq, where improvised explosive devices were made and stored.
• Coalition Forces Detain 6 in Northern Iraq AFPS 09 Jan 2008 -- Coalition forces detained six suspects today during operations targeting al Qaeda networks in northern Iraq, officials reported.
• New U.S. Offensive Targets al Qaeda in Northern Iraq AFPS 09 Jan 2008 -- American military forces in northern Iraq have launched a new offensive targeting al Qaeda elements operating in the region, senior U.S. military officers posted in Iraq said today.
• Coalition Medics Conduct Operation With Iraqi Police AFPS 09 Jan 2008 -- Medics from 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, and 489th Civil Affairs Battalion, a reserve unit from Knoxville, Tenn., attached to 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, conducted a medical operation in Tameem, southeast of Baghdad, Jan. 5.
• Operation Marne Thunderbolt continues (Arab Jabour) MNF-I 09 Jan 2008 -- Coalition Force events in support of Operation Marne Thunderbolt continued to reduce the ability of al-Qaeda in Iraq operating in areas south of Baghdad Jan. 5 and 6.
• Operation Iron Harvest clears al-Qaeda from northern Iraq (Baquba) MNF-I 09 Jan 2008 -- Multi-National Division - North Soldiers began Operation Iron Harvest to pursue al-Qaeda in Iraq and extremist elements from the region.
• Operation Marne Thunderbolt clears al-Qaeda from southeast Baghdad MNF-I 09 Jan 2008 -- Marne Thunderbolt is the latest in a series of combat operations by Multi-National Division - Center, focused on pursuing the enemy and clearing al-Qaeda safe havens southeast of Baghdad.
• Cavalry Unit Rules the Sky: Hits 20,000 Flight Hours in Iraq MNF-I 09 Jan 2008 -- An air cavalry unit in Iraq has found itself ringing in the New Year by flying to a remarkable milestone.
• 6 US Troops Killed in Booby-Trapped House During Offensive in Northern Iraq VOA 09 Jan 2008 -- The U.S. military reports six American soldiers were killed Wednesday in a bobby-trapped house during a new operation in northern Iraq

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraqis Realize They Need Coalition to Stay, Odierno Says AFPS 09 Jan 2008 -- Coalition servicemembers are making a difference in Iraq, and despite political rhetoric there, the country's leaders realize they need coalition forces to remain, the commander of coalition ground forces said yesterday.
• US Sanctions Iranian General for Aiding Iraq Insurgents VOA 09 Jan 2008 -- The United States Wednesday imposed sanctions against a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps for helping insurgents in Iraq

United Nations

• 151,000 Iraqis died violent deaths in three years after 2003 invasion - UN study UN News Centre 09 Jan 2008 -- Some 151,000 Iraqis died from violence between March 2003 - start of the United States-led invasion - and June 2006, according to a large national household survey conducted by the Iraqi Government and the United Nations World health Organization (WHO).
• WHO Study Finds More Than 150,000 Violent Iraqi Deaths VOA 09 Jan 2008 -- A new study estimates more than 150,000 civilians in Iraq have died from violence between March 2003 and June 2006

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• Iran reaffirms validity of Iran-Iraq 1975 Accord IRNA 09 Jan 2008 -- Foreign Ministry on Wednesday reaffirmed commitment to good neighborly relations with Iraq, national sovereignty and territorial integrity and non-interference in line with Accord signed by the two parties in Algiers in 1975.
• UK drops charges against leaks of secret Iraq warnings IRNA 09 Jan 2008 -- A Foreign Office official accused of leaking confidential documents to the British media, warning that the Iraq war was fuelling Muslim extremism, was cleared Wednesday after charges against him were suddenly dropped.

News Reports

• Iraq: Awakening Councils Face Political, Terrorist Pressure RFE/RL 09 Jan 2008 -- The so-called awakening councils that have been formed in Iraq to fight terrorists are finding themselves under increasing threat from rival political and security groups and terrorists keen on curbing their power.