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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Aug 2010 [PDF]
• Feeling good about Tarmiyah Army News 13 Aug 2010 -- When 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, arrived at Joint Security Station Tarmiyah in January 2010, there were still empty shell casings scattered on the rooftops and in the guard towers; a misleading sign as to what they would encounter over the next year.

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• Last U.S. combat brigade leaving Iraq Army News 13 Aug 2010 -- General Raymond Odierno, commander of United States Forces-Iraq, Abdel Qader Jassim, Iraqi Minister of Defense and other senior U.S. and Iraqi leaders, watched as two Iraqi and three American soldiers marched crisply across the parade field to a display where their units' colors and their nations' flags flew in the wind.
• From Sand to Sea: Logistics operations critical to meeting Iraq drawdown deadline Army News 13 Aug 2010 -- For much of the war, the complex logistical process of supplying the warfighters in theater has been behind the scenes. Now, with the push to get people and equipment out of Iraq, the work of surface distribution commands at sea ports is in the spotlight. Images of the war have shifted from combat troops in battle throughout deserts and urban landscapes to convoys of armored vehicles leaving Iraq destined for sea ports in the Persian Gulf.

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• Iraqi Party 'Makes Offer' To Break Government Deadlock RFE/RL 13 Aug 2010 -- A high-ranking Iraqi official says Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law bloc has made a key offer in an attempt to break the five-month deadlock over forming a new government, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reports.

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• U.S. withdrawal from Iraq: Ending or outsourcing the war? RIA Novosti 13 Aug 2010 -- Iraqis, along with the rest of the Muslim world, have ushered in the holy month of Ramadan, hoping it will give their thoughts some refuge from worries about Iraq's future. The country is still living without a cabinet, and only God knows when it will get one. Meanwhile, the U.S. has started withdrawing combat brigades in keeping with President Barack Obama's election pledge. All combat troops are expected to be out of Iraq by September 1, while the remainder of U.S. forces are scheduled to leave by the end of 2011.

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