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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 14 Oct 2009 [PDF]
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Press Secretary Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon DoD 14 Oct 2009 -- Presenter: Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell
• Oct. 13 airpower summary: F-16s eliminate threat to friendly forces AFNS 14 Oct 2009 -- Coalition airpower integrated with ground forces in Iraq and ISAF troops in Afghanistan during operations.
• Iraqis Arrest Bribery Suspect, Extortionist's Associate AFPS 14 Oct 2009 -- Iraqi security forces, working with U.S. advisors, apprehended a bribery suspect and an associate of an alleged extortionist yesterday in Mosul, Iraq.

Deployments

• 16th Sust. Bde. returns to Germany Army News 14 Oct 2009 -- Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 16th Sustainment Brigade returning to Germany following a 15-month deployment in support of OIF.

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United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• 'Advise and Assist' Brigade Helps Bridge Project AFPS 14 Oct 2009 -- On a floating bridge beside the stump of a modern concrete highway span under construction here, two middle-aged men talk through an interpreter about the job before them.
• Airmen train, advise, assist Iraqi helicopter pilots AFNS 14 Oct 2009 -- Air Force pilots from the 721st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron here train, advise and assist Iraqi helicopter pilots around the clock, helping the Iraqis further develop their air force.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Syria-Iraq Dispute Colors Regional Security Conference VOA 14 Oct 2009 -- Tense relations between Iraq and Syria set the backdrop for a meeting on Iraqi security.
• IRAQ: War remnants, pollution behind rise in cancer deaths? IRIN 14 Oct 2009 -- In the late 1990s 22-year-old Manal Sabir Abdullah from Basra was diagnosed with lung cancer.