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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 11 Mar 2009 [PDF]
• DoD News: DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon DoD 11 Mar 2009 -- Presenter: Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell
• On the Ground: Coalition Forces Meet to Move Iraq Forward AFPS 11 Mar 2009 -- U.S. forces in Iraq increasingly fill their days with something not thought of as a traditional military role: meetings.
• 'Wheel Depot' Rolls Out First Rebuilt Humvee AFPS 11 Mar 2009 -- First M1114 Humvee to be completely rebuilt at the Taji National Maintenance Depot rolled out of Main Wheel Assembly and Disassembly facility.
• Iraq Takes 'Huge Strides' Toward Independence, Coalition General Says AFPS 11 Mar 2009 -- Coalition commander: Building a nation takes time, and progress shouldn’t be measured through Western standards.

Deployments

• Farewell held for 742nd MI group deploying to Iraq Army News 11 Mar 2009 -- Family, friends and commanders surrounded deploying service members, offering prayers and good wishes.

US Policy

• Obama Nominates Ambassadors for Iraq, Afghanistan VOA 11 Mar 2009 -- US President Obama has announced choices for several key foreign policy positions, including ambassadors to Afghanistan and Iraq.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• U.S. military makes last payment to Sons of Iraq MNF-I 11 Mar 2009
• Sons of Iraq transfer nears completion; focus shifts to job creation MNF-I 11 Mar 2009 -- The Government of Iraq is preparing to take control of the remaining Sons of Iraq members from coalition forces, and efforts to transition the group's members into new government jobs are accelerating, Coalition authorities say
• General Dynamics Awarded $33 Million for Iraqi Abrams Tank Work General Dynamics 11 Mar 2009 -- General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a contract worth $33 million to purchase long-lead materials for the production of 140 M1A1 SA (Situational Awareness) tanks for the Iraq program.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Top Saddam Officials, Half-Brothers Sentenced VOA 11 Mar 2009 -- Iraq's top court has sentenced the main spokesman for Saddam Hussein's regime, Tariq Aziz, to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity.