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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 24 Mar 2009 [PDF]
• Iraq, Turkey Nearing Deal To Deprive PKK Of Bases RFE/RL 24 Mar 2009 -- Turkey's efforts to deprive the PKK of bases in northern Iraq may have reached a watershed moment.
• Turkish President Discusses Border Tensions in Baghdad VOA 24 Mar 2009 -- PM Barzani: Meeting with Turkish President Abdullah Gul helped improve relations between the two sides.
• Troops Prevent Attacks With Battlefield Forensics AFPS 24 Mar 2009 -- When an IED is detected, a team of servicemembers here heads straight to the site to start the crime-scene investigation.
• Coalition Teaches Crime-scene Techniques to Iraqi Police AFPS 24 Mar 2009 -- A boom resounded across the desert as debris and truck parts fell to the earth and Iraqi policemen rushed to the blast scene.
• Airmen train Iraqi maintainers AFNS 24 Mar 2009 -- Airmen took 3 Iraqi air force members to help fix one of Iraq's C-130s in an attempt to help members of the Iraqi air force better tilize their resources.

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US Policy

• Preston Addresses Concerns, Outlines Goals to Soldiers in Iraq AFPS 24 Mar 2009 -- President Obama's announcement to end combat operations in Iraq has raised some concerns for troops serving in Iraq.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Oil Price Slump Pressures Iraq to Re-assess Reconstruction, Military Spending VOA 24 Mar 2009 -- Iraqi leaders are under pressure to re-assess their reconstruction plans after collapse in oil prices.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• MPs in new bid for Iraq war inquiry IRNA 24 Mar 2009 -- Conservative Party is launching a new bid in the British parliament to force PM Brown to call an immediate independent inquiry into the Iraq war.
• Al-Rubai: Terrorist MKO tortures opponents IRNA 24 Mar 2009 -- Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie: Mujahideen Khalq Organization tortures and is violent against its opponent members.
• UK ends resettlement program for former Iraq staff IRNA 24 Mar 2009 -- Foreign Secretary Miliband has announced ending of his government's offer to resettle former Iraq staff who helped British troops.