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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 19 Apr 2010 [PDF]
• Two Top al-Qaida Leaders Killed in Iraq VOA 19 Apr 2010 -- Iraqi and U.S. officials say a joint military operation has killed the two top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the deaths and showed reporters in Baghdad pictures of two bloody bodies. The top U.S. general in Iraq also confirmed the deaths.
• Combined Operation Kills Top al-Qaida in Iraq Leaders AFPS 19 Apr 2010 -- Iraqi security forces, supported by U.S. troops, killed the two most-senior leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq early yesterday in the culmination of a series of combined operations southwest of Tikrit, Iraq.
• Iraqi Security Forces Keep U.S. Drawdown on Track AFPS 19 Apr 2010 -- Iraqi forces are doing a good job in maintaining security in the country, and the American withdrawal can proceed as planned, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said yesterday.
• U.S. Soldiers, Iraqi Federal Police Build Obstacle Course Army News 19 Apr 2010 -- Combat engineers from 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division built a 10-station obstacle course together April 2 with policemen from 4th Brigade, 1st Iraqi Federal Police Division at Joint Security Station Beladiyat.
• Iraqi Forces Kill 1, Arrest 9 Terror Suspects AFPS 19 Apr 2010 -- Iraqi security forces arrested nine suspected terrorists in Iraq in recent days and killed a man identified as an al-Qaida in Iraq leader in the northern city of Mosul, military officials reported.
• Balad becomes divert base for wounded troops AFNS 19 Apr 2010 -- Senior U.S. Air Forces Central Command medical officers have temporarily named Joint Base Balad as the new hub for all aeromedical evacuations following worldwide air travel disruptions caused by ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruptions.

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US Policy

• Mullen Lauds Iraqi Forces for Efforts Against al-Qaida AFPS 19 Apr 2010 -- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff echoed Vice President Joe Biden’s praise today of Iraqi and U.S. security forces for successfully killing the two top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq early yesterday.
• Biden Calls Leaders’ Deaths ‘Devastating’ to al-Qaida AFPS 19 Apr 2010 -- Vice President Joe Biden today praised Iraqi and U.S. security forces for killing two top leaders of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror organization.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Election Panel Orders Baghdad Recount VOA 19 Apr 2010 -- An Iraqi election panel has ordered a manual recount of votes cast in Baghdad during last month's parliamentary election, following an appeal from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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