HIGHLIGHTS
- Strategic Framework/Status of Forces Agreement Being Reviewed by Iraqi Government (POLITICAL, page 4).
- Iraqi Security Force and Coalition Operations Further Degrade AQI and Criminal Networks (SECURITY, page 8).
- Iraq to Reconsider Budget as Oil Prices Drop (ECONOMIC, page 11).
- Ambassador Ali Al-Mou'min, Kuwait's first ambassador to Iraq since that country's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, formally assumed his duties in Baghdad on October 22 (DIPLOMATIC, page 23).