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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 25 Nov 2009 [PDF]
• Airpower Summary: November 24 AFNS 25 Nov 2009
• Iraqis Arrest 18 Suspected al—Qaida Associates AFPS 25 Nov 2009 -- Iraqi security forces arrested 18 suspected al-Qaida in Iraq associates today, and earlier this week captured a terrorism suspect they’ve been pursuing for three years, military officials reported.
• US, Iraqi Navy Divers Conduct Survey, Clear Hazards From Iraqi Port Navy NewsStand 25 Nov 2009 -- Members of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, currently deployed to Combined Task Group (CTG) 56.1 in Bahrain, worked alongside members of the Iraqi Navy to perform a salvage dive survey and hazard clearance in the Umm Qasr, Iraq harbor Nov. 14-16.
• Lewis bound: I Corps analytical element completes year-long tour Army News 25 Nov 2009 -- In November 2008, Brig. Gen. Peter Bayer, Multi-National Corps-Iraq chief of staff, stood before the Corps Analysis and Control Element at Fort Lewis, Wash., to wish the Soldiers of I Corps' CACE well as they prepared to head to Iraq
• Tennessee Army National Guard maintains, operates critical northern Iraq aviation asset Army News 25 Nov 2009 -- they immediately drop anything they're doing, put on their protective equipment, run to the fuel trucks and [service the aircraft]. At other locations, Soldiers are on shift. Here Soldiers work when the aircraft are flying which is all the time, any time."
• U.S. Navy, Army Work Together to Provide Water for Iraqis Navy NewsStand 25 Nov 2009 -- Today at Camp Bucca, Iraq, more than one hundred Iraqis and Americans celebrated the grand opening of water distribution and waste collection points for the citizens of Safwan and Umm Qasr, Iraq.

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• Iraqi Plan To Draw Up Voter Rolls Under Scrutiny RFE/RL 25 Nov 2009 -- Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians in Iraq have warned that creating voter rolls in the country's 18 provinces based on ration cards is an unreliable method that can be manipulated, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports.

Foreign Reactions

• British Officials: Little Pre-War Evidence of al-Qaida-Iraq Link VOA 25 Nov 2009 -- Two senior British officials say there was no evidence of serious cooperation between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and only sporadic contacts in the years before.
• UK to set out details of second Iraq abuse inquiry IRNA 25 Nov 2009 -- The British government is due Wednesday to set out details of a second public inquiry into alleged war crimes committed by UK troops in Iraq following years of litigations.
• UK rejected al-Qaeda links with Iraq, inquiry told IRNA 25 Nov 2009 -- The UK government rejected claims of links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime prior to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Iraq war inquiry was told Wednesday.

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