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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 11 May 2009 [PDF]
• U.S. Soldier killed by IED (Basra)
• UPDATE: Five dead in shooting (Baghdad)
• DoD News: DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD News: DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DETAINEE OPERATIONS OPERATIONAL UPDATE: Media Roundtable: Maj. Gen. Swan; Brig. Gen. Quantock; Maj. Gen. Qadir, May 11, 2009 MNF-I 11 May 2009 -- Brig. Gen. David Quantock, deputy CG of MNF-I Detainee Operations and CG of Task Force 134; Maj. Gen. Guy Swan, Chief of Staff, MNF-I; and Maj. Gen. Aiden Khaled Qadir, Director of Iraqi Police Security, Iraqi Ministry of Interior, speak with the press
• Troops in Iraq Capture Suspect, Weapons AFPS 11 May 2009 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces detained one suspect and uncovered a weapons cache in operations last week, military officials said.

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US Policy

• Transcript: Press Conference with Secretary Gates and Adm. Mullen on Leadership Changes in Afghanistan From the Pentagon DoD 11 May 2009 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• US Urges Syria to Cut Flow of Foreign Fighters to Iraq VOA 11 May 2009 -- The United States publicly called on Syria to do more to curb the traffic of foreign fighters to Iraq through Syrian territory.
• Al-Basrah Graduates Final Class Of Prison Guards RFE/RL 11 May 2009 -- Ceremonies have been held for the final 200 graduates of an Iraqi corrections-officer training program led by US forces at Camp Bucca.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Gates Expresses Horror, Regret Over Base Slayings AFPS 11 May 2009 -- Defense Secretary Gates: DoD will devote its “highest-priority attention” to the slaying today of five U.S. servicemembers in Baghdad.
• US Soldier in Custody Following Slaying of 5 Americans in Iraq AFPS 11 May 2009 -- American soldier suspected in involvement shooting deaths of five US servicemembers today in Baghdad is in US custody.
• Media: US Soldier in Iraq Kills Fellow Soldiers VOA 11 May 2009 -- US media quote an American military source as saying a US soldier has shot and killed at least 4 of his fellow soldiers at a US base in Baghdad.