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• Air Force officials stand up new squadron in Iraq AFNS 21 Dec 2009 -- Air Force officials held an assumption-of-command ceremony for the 532nd Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron Dec. 15 80 feet above the flightline standing upon a control tower platform at Al Asad Air Base.
• Combined U.S., IA patrol in Ur Army News 21 Dec 2009 -- Security technology is constantly improving and changing; satellites, infrared cameras and biometrics systems are at our fingertips. However, sometimes a good old-fashioned foot patrol is the best way to go.
• Securing rural area for upcoming elections Army News 21 Dec 2009 -- While upcoming elections, scheduled for next spring, give many Iraqis a sense of hope in their ability to improve their government and way of life, insurgents view elections as an opportunity to conduct attacks and impose their own agenda.

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• Iraqi ambassador: There is no dispute between Iran, Iraq IRNA 21 Dec 2009 -- Iraq’s Ambassador to Tehran Mohammad Majid Al-Shaikh said on Monday that there is no dispute between Iran and Iraq.
• US troop withdrawal from Iraq won't stabilize country - Primakov RIA Novosti 21 Dec 2009 -- The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, expected in about a year's time, will hardly stabilize the situation in the country, a former Russian prime minister said Monday.

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• N. Iraq Suicide Bombing Kills District Council Chief VOA 21 Dec 2009 -- Police say the attacker targeted the local politician's car Monday in the city of Tal Afar. One of the politician's bodyguards also was killed.