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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 29 Apr 2010 [PDF]
• Transcript: DOD News Briefing with Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon DoD 29 Apr 2010 -- Presenter: Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell

Deployments

• 3rd Sustainment Brigade moves out Army News 29 Apr 2010 -- Approximately 200 Soldiers from 3rd Sustainment Brigade deployed to Iraq, April 24. Their mission is to plan, coordinate and execute the movement of equipments from Iraq during the next 12 months.
• 260th Quartermaster HHD returns from Iraq Army News 29 Apr 2010 -- Eighty Soldiers from the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 260th Quartermaster Battalion, landed at the Truscott Air Terminal at Hunter Army Airfield in the early morning hours of April 26.
• Fort Rucker's 164th Theater Airfield Operation Group deploys Army News 29 Apr 2010 -- Families and fellow Soldiers of the 164th Theater Airfield Operation Group bid farewell to 17 unit members who departed for a yearlong deployment in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait April 27 at Cairns Army Airfield.

US Policy

• CSA discusses progress, future of Iraq Army News 29 Apr 2010 -- Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. visited 1st Advise and Assist Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, on Contingency Operating Station Falcon, April 28.

United Nations

• UN reparations panel for invasion of Kuwait pays out $590 million UN News Centre 29 Apr 2010 -- The United Nations commission that settles damage claims in connection to Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait today made $590 million available to nine successful claimants.
• Baghdad Vote Recount Begins Monday VOA 29 Apr 2010 -- Iraq's electoral commission says a recount of votes in Baghdad from the March parliamentary elections will begin Monday and last at least two weeks.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Domestic wheat, rice production in the doldrums IRIN 29 Apr 2010 -- Iraq is planning to import 80 percent of its wheat and rice requirements in 2010, according to Hussein Ghazy, a spokesman of the state-owned Grains Company affiliated to the Trade Ministry.

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