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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 24 Nov 2008 [PDF]
• DoD News: DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Nov. 23 airpower summary: F-15Es provide armed overwatch AFNS 24 Nov 2008 -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Nov. 23, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
• Coalition, Iraqis Capture Terror Suspect, Seize Weapons AFPS 24 Nov 2008 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces captured a suspected terrorist and seized two weapons caches in Iraq over the past four days, military officials said.
• Reconstruction Teams Work ‘One Block at a Time’ in Iraq AFPS 24 Nov 2008 -- Reconstruction in Iraq means more than fixing broken walls and stocking store shelves. It means securing a future where Iraqis can sustain themselves, a provincial reconstruction team leader said.
• Ordnance clearance mission in Iraq ends, new mission emerges Army News 24 Nov 2008 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has accomplished its mission of mobile ordnance cleanup in Iraq, and will now move refocused operations to a stationary location near Baghdad

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US Policy

United Nations

• Top UN official deplores latest bombings in Iraqi capital UN News Centre 24 Nov 2008 -- The top United Nations envoy to Iraq has strongly condemned the series of bombings that struck Baghdad today, killing and injuring innocent civilians on their way to work.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Political Showdown Looms Over Status Of Forces Agreement RFE/RL 24 Nov 2008 -- Thousands of supporters of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held a raucous but otherwise peaceful rally in downtown Baghdad last week that was both reflection of events in parliament and a portent of things to come over continued U.S. military presence in the country

Foreign Reactions

• Larijani: US-Iraq security pact to cause crisis in Iraq, region IRNA 24 Nov 2008 -- Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday that the recent security pact signed by the US and Iraq would cause crisis in Iraq as well as the entire region
• Iran Watches As Iraq Negotiates Security Pact With U.S. RFE/RL 24 Nov 2008 -- Iraq's parliament is nearing a vote on a long-awaited security agreement with the United States

News Reports

• Bombings Kill at Least 19 in Iraqi Capital VOA 24 Nov 2008 -- Iraqi police say at least 19 people have been killed in two bombings in the capital, Baghdad.