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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 17 Aug 2010 [PDF]
• Medical crew takes flight, injured out of fight AFNS 17 Aug 2010 -- Five members of the 332nd Expeditionary Airlift Flight, with the help of other unit comrades, loaded a C-130 Hercules with medical supplies and equipment in preparation for picking up servicemembers at various locations throughout Iraq.
• Electronic Systems Center team completing communication infrastructure project for Iraqi air force AFNS 17 Aug 2010 -- An Electronic Systems Center team is scheduled to complete work on a project by the end of August that lays the backbone for communication and connectivity for the Iraqi air force.

Deployments

• 546th ASMC Deploys to Iraq Army News 17 Aug 2010 -- Friends and family members of Soldiers with the 546th Area Support Medical Company, 1st Medical Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), woke up early on July 31 to attend a farewell ceremony at the Kieschnick Fitness Center.

US Policy

• New Iraqi training and advisory mission director visits Umm Qasr Army News 17 Aug 2010 -- United Kingdom Royal Marine Brig. Simon Timothy "Tim" Chicken, the new director of the Iraqi Training and Advisory Mission Navy, visited the port city of Umm Qasr, Iraq, today during his official visit to ITAM Navy Umm Qasr's operations.

United Nations

• Iraq: UN agency expands cash-for-work scheme UN News Centre 17 Aug 2010 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is expanding the scope of its cash-for-work programme in Iraq in a bid to help more than 11,000 vulnerable people in areas hardest hit by violence.
• UN condemns deadly attack on Iraqi army recruitment centre UN News Centre 17 Aug 2010 -- The United Nations has strongly condemned today’s terrorist attack on an Iraqi army recruitment centre in the capital that claimed the lives of dozens of military recruits and left over a hundred others injured.

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• At Least 47 Killed In Attack On Iraqi Army Recruitment Center RFE/RL 17 Aug 2010 -- Dozens of people have been killed and scores more injured in an attack on an Iraqi Army recruitment center in Baghdad.
• Bomber Strikes Iraqi Army Recruits, Killing at Least 61 VOA 17 Aug 2010 -- A suicide bomber has killed at least 61 people in an attack at an army recruitment center in Baghdad. More than 125 other people are said to have been injured in the blast. The attack comes two weeks before a U.S. deadline to remove its combat troops from Iraq.